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...leaked, some critics say, it would have been less damaging in the long run than Japan's subsequent loss of face. One specific complaint of U.S. intelligence experts who resent Kissinger's excessive sense of secrecy: the fact that information about his talks in Peking with Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung have never been allowed to circulate beyond the White House...
...such decadent bourgeois composers as Beethoven and Schubert, but a Chinese opera with the ponderous title Three Ascents Up Peach Mountain. Performed in Peking in January, the new opera initially provoked nobody's wrath. But now People's Daily has castigated it as an "outrageous attack" on Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary philosophy. The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist notion of a "kingdom of gentlemen." Most offensive of all, the original opera centered on a horse, egregiously symbolizing Mao Tse-tung...
Many observers believe that a group of radicals in the Politburo, headed by No. 3 Man Wang Hung-wen, a leader of the radical cadres in Shanghai, and Mao's wife Chiang Ching, have been trying to use the Confucius-Lin campaign to gain leverage against Chou-possibly with the goal of determining who will eventually succeed the aging Mao...
...campaign entered the final stretch, Wilson found his touch. At a mass meeting in Birmingham, he took on Heath's "Reds under the bed" campaign theme in classic Wilson style. "In three short weeks," he said, "the Conservatives have achieved what Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev never were able to do-make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic...
...Chinese occupation. Directed by Jean Yanne, a French film maker noted for his political and social satire, the film shows the Chinese army taking Paris without so much as a shot. Appalled at French decadence, the Chinese ban automobiles, alcohol and sex, mais alors, c 'est impossible! Mao's minions then decide to let the French indulge themselves in their vices and suffer the consequences, but the captors are eventually corrupted and abruptly ordered home to Peking, whereupon a handful of absurd partisans "liberate" Paris...