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October 1949. Mao Tse-tung's Communists win control of China, promise aid to Ho's Viet Minh...
NIXON-McGOVERN -- Dick will get caught bugging the men's room of the Washington Post editorial office, the states south of the Mason-Dixon line will sink into the Gulf of Mexico, and George Meany and Mao Tse-tung will co-host a fundraiser to pay McGovern's phone bill, as late returns from an Eskimo tribe in the Aleutian Islands put George over...
...Mao may sound more leftist, but what he does is actually pretty much like Russia," Powers said...
Being named as a potential heir apparent to Mao is a parlous honor in China today. That was the position held by the late, disgraced Lin Piao, who, according to Chou, promoted the heresy of "the naming of only one successor." Chou confirmed publicly for the first time the story of the former Defense Minister's death last year in a plane crash in Mongolia (TIME, Nov. 22) and threw in some previously undisclosed details. As Chou told it, Lin had plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power in 1971, after he came under criticism in the party...
...reason Lin fell from favor in the first place was his opposition to any rapprochement with the U.S., Chou added. "Only Chairman Mao recognized that a little Ping Pong ball could change the world," said the Premier, revealing how Peking's first move toward a new relationship with the U.S. had come about. While the American table tennis team was playing in a world tournament in Japan in April 1971, several members had applied for visas to visit China. Peking's Foreign Ministry had turned them down. "I myself approved this decision and submitted it to Chairman Mao...