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DIED. Kuo Mojo, 85, China's most prolific and durable literary figure; in Peking. A poet, novelist, dramatist and translator, he was also a propagandist who at the proper times sang the praises of Chiang Kaishek, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Hua Kuo-feng...
...that the words have slid over her eyes like soft-boiled eggs on a white plastic plate. She begins again with renewed fervor and determination. And once more, the glint of sunlight on the river, the bouncing body that jogs by, the red girl playing a congo drum with Mao plastered on its side, the frisbee that nearly breaks her nose, distract her already wavering concentration...
Within a few minutes the wok was hot, the meal of refried rice and Mao-Mao beans was simmering gently, and the photographers had arrived. If we kept off the grass, tomorrow might be a success after...
...another excerpt, Nixon trivializes his trip to China by revealing--as you always suspected--that great heads of state meeting at the summit sound more like Floyd the barber and Andy Griffith than men of destiny deciding the course of the world. Nixon, Kissinger, Mao and Chou discuss Mao's health; Mao claims he likes rightists and makes other jokes; all agree that talking is a good thing; Chou looks at his watch. Nixon reveals that Chou was capable of sitting through long meetings in Chinese without falling asleep. These glimpses of power are fascinating, but present a pattern...
...businesslike style, free of the usual Marxist rhetoric, the manual contains instructions grouped under seven headings: renting or buying a "safe" house, use of automobiles, work methods, appointments, contact with relatives, personal care and what to do in case of arrest. Ringing a kind of middle-class change on Mao's dictum that guerrillas should mix with the people as fish swim in water, the handbook conveys a portrait of an organization that is both rigorously disciplined and shrewd...