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...Among Mao Tse-tung's most famous sayings is, "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Mao's successors now realize that one kind of power China needs most flows from the end of a pipeline. In an attempt to increase oil output and hence speed the country's economic development, 16 Chinese petroleum experts, led by Sun Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet...
...Communists came to power in the late 1940s, little oil exploration had been conducted in China. In the '50s, Russian experts helped in tapping several big finds, but in 1960 they pulled out, leaving the barely experienced Chinese on their own. Their departure coincided with the conclusion of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which was intended to initiate the masses into the discipline and skills required in an industrial society. The consequence: a huge stumble backward that hurt China's developing industries. After a few years of respite, Mao's second self-inflicted economic catastrophe...
Among his many other little pleasures are playing a middling game of tennis and jogging up to a mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
Reagan and Gianotti met with the group a couple of times a week at local restaurants for discussions of how the works of Communist thinkers could be applied to their own goals. Often the group would take 50 pages of Mao's On Protracted War and explicate it line by line...
...women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with Mao's dictum of depersonalization. The four lived in the Echo Park-Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, a pleasant older part of the city. Bissell and Perry shared an apartment, while Justesen and Mullin lived together in a small, old house nearby...