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...message by Director Sidney Lumet, a young heiress named Mary Ann Gifford is kidnaped by an outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle." The principled girl is Kathy Cronkite, Walter's aspiring actress daughter...
...terms of liberties and affluence--"find its equal," he has written. But Americans are also in a dangerous time, paralyzed by failure of nerve; we are threatened with our foreign policy "elites" making "an accommodation to totalitarianism without precedent in our history." Perhaps Nixon made his peace with Mao and Brezhnev, and detente was the order of election year 1972--but this has changed; Moynihan sees the world divided between the party of liberty and that of totalitarianism...
...clear that the disturbances went far beyond the narrow issue of respect for the late Premier. They were also expressions of support for the kind of consistent, moderate policies mapped out by Chou-and supported by Teng-and opposed by the radical faction that claims to speak for Mao himself...
...whole country." In Peking and elsewhere, great prominence was given to the workers' militia rather than to the regular army as the group responsible for maintaining order. The militia, said the official press agency, "feared neither hardship nor death" in fighting the "class enemy." Significantly, it is Mao and the radicals who have promoted the expansion of workers' militia organizations in China, presumably as a power base in the event of a future struggle with more conservative factions...
Meanwhile, the position of the professional army remains a mystery. While party leaders and the heads of government ministries were turned out for the pro-Mao demonstrations last week, several key military commanders were absent. Among the most important was Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military district, a member of the Politburo and widely regarded as the country's most powerful general. In the past, the army often favored the kind of moderation practiced by Chou and Teng. The fact that it is staying aloof from the current struggle may be bad news for Mao...