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...current, Torrijos, 46, suddenly plunged into the river-fully clothed in his national guard uniform, with military boots and a .45 automatic. He was immediately followed by a few loyal military aides, then by Panama's civilian Vice President, Gerardo Gonzáles. After several minutes of Mao-like cavorting for the benefit of onlookers and TV cameras, Torrijos climbed out of the muddy waters, volunteering no reason for his unexpected aquatics...
...wall poster at Peking University lumped all three villains together as "the horrible three-headed monster." In Tientsin, Teng was in a poster cartoon as the leader of an orchestra consisting of all of China's "right deviationists." The key charge against him is that he falsified Mao's instructions. Under Chou and Teng, party propaganda-duly citing Mao-emphasized three main goals for the country: 1) studying the Chairman's teachings about the dictatorship of the proletariat, 2) promoting national unity, and 3) boosting production...
...posters and recent editorials in China's leading papers insist that Mao never gave equal importance to the three objectives. His crucial message concerned the dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning that workers must continue to wage "class struggle" against the remnants of the bourgeoisie. A new Mao quote on this subject appeared last week in a front page editorial of the People's Daily. "What?" it asked incredulously. "Taking the three directives as the key link? Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle. Class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges...
Earlier Richard Nixon had been invited to inspect the posters at Peking's Tsinghua University, indicating that Chairman Mao had endorsed and very likely started the campaign against Teng. But while the goal of the current campaign is clearly to cut Teng down to size, there was evidence that party officials were seeking to keep the struggle under control, lest it lead to the kind of chaos that swept China during the Cultural Revolution. There have not yet been any posters with incendiary slogans-such as ROOT OUT THE POISONOUS WEEDS and SWEEP AWAY MONSTERS AND DEMONS-aimed directly...
...point to a major resurgence of the Cultural Revolutionary leftists. For one thing, pragmatic moderates with close ties either to Chou or Teng appear to dominate the government bureaucracy, the State Council (China's Cabinet) and the army. For another, only two committed leftists-apart from Mao-belong to the all-important, nine-member Standing Committee of the party. Currently, there are three vacancies on the committee. If there are to be severe factional quarrels in the future, they could well focus on the crucial issue of which party leaders will fill these places...