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...Southerners still seem to fear impeachment more than they resent Nixon. Joe Feinberg, who supplied the decorative ceramic tiles for the Key Biscayne homes of both the President and Bebe Rebozo, thinks Nixon is "guilty as sin." But he worries about "who is going to talk to Brezhnev and Mao. How is Carl Albert going to be able to carry on a dialogue with the big powers? They'll kill...
...problems. There was wide discontent because of the rising cost of rice and Thanom's police-state methods. The revolt that abruptly brought down his regime started when university students in Bangkok issued a list of mild demands that seemed to have goals more appropriate to Disraeli than Mao: a new constitution (the old one had been arbitrarily scrapped by the military government in 1971) and free elections. To the government, however, the demands amounted to near sedition. Twelve student demonstrators and professors were arrested and charged with "instigating public unrest and trying to overthrow the present government...
...editorial, Pravda heaped abuse on the Peking leadership, charging Mao Tse-tung with waging a "frantic struggle against the socialist countries." At a speech in Tashkent two weeks ago, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev complained that China had ignored several Soviet offers of a non-aggression pact, the latest made last June. Said Brezhnev: "It is characteristic that the leaders of the People's Republic of China, who scream throughout the world about some Soviet threat supposedly hanging over them, didn't even bother to reply to this concrete proposal of the Soviet Union...
...potential explosiveness of the situation, four years of negotiations over disputed border territories have produced no results. Meanwhile, the Russians seem to be pinning their hopes on what Soviet commentators refer to as "healthy forces" in China, meaning a moderate pro-Soviet clique that could take power after Mao has gone. That is at best a long-range hope. For Mao, however, there are more immediate advantages to be gained from the conflict. He has often used the threat of a foreign enemy to rally support for his own policies while isolating his domestic opposition. Though no Confucianist, he obviously...
...Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China...