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Born into a peasant family, he graduated from Hsinhua Fine Arts Academy in Shanghai, then commanded one of Mao Tse-tung's Red Army regiments. During the historic Long March in the mid-1930s, he wrote two plays for his comrades and produced a valued collection of sketches...
...Czechoslovakia, he once remarked, "You cannot read this. You cannot comprehend it. But keep it by your side. It may help you to ask some questions." The Koran explains Gaddafi's loathing of drink: "With God's help I will stamp out alcohol in Libya, just as Mao stamped out another evil, opium, in China...
...weeks before Ceauşescu's 55th birthday in January, the entire government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected to the Communist Party's 185-member Central Committee. "You might say the personality cult is a sort of antidote...
...accounts the Chinese welcome his appointment. Bruce, nominally a Democrat, has served under every President since Harry Truman and thus enjoys the support of both U.S. political parties. He is the same age as Chou En-lai and only five years younger than Mao Tse-tung-a fact that runs against the American obsession with youth but fits in congenially with the Chinese respect for age and experience...
Finally, at No. 17 Chung Shan Road, there stood the gray stone building where TIME and LIFE had their offices on the sixth floor. I peered in through a grille and saw huge portraits of Lenin, Marx and Mao. The heavy bronze gates in the doorway of the building looked just the same. Even the faded gold mosaic of the lobby was just a shade grimier. Peering into the vestibule, I could see the rheumatic old elevators, still alive but having more difficulty than ever getting upstairs...