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...only one of the ironies of the summit that Tanaka's journey of atonement will be another blow to the Nationalists. The Japanese Premier's six-day visit will end on the eve of Oct. 1, making the summit a kind of obeisance to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, who use that date as the anniversary of the triumphant establishment of their regime in Peking in 1949. When a ranking Japanese emissary arrived in Taipei early last week to plead for "understanding" of the summit, Nationalist student demonstrators greeted him with angry placards crying TANAKA...
...Mao Tse-Tung said, the guerrillas must be like fish in the sea," he said, quoting as uneasy ally. "If the sea is inhospitable, the fish cannot swim...
...rampant puritanism of the Cultural Revolution has given way to the resurgent folkways of an older Peking. One can see Chinese workers playing cards under the street lights in Peking, something unheard of not long ago. Mao badges, Mao statues and the little Red Book of quotations are disappearing from many public places. In the past couple of months, too, Chinese have been able to wash down their noodles in the myriad noodle bars of Peking, Shanghai and Canton with draft beer, a popular practice that almost ceased during the Cultural Revolution. Most of the restaurants are packed, since...
...honor. But beyond that, one occasion's honor tends often to dissolve in next year's realism. In his own terms of a few years ago, for example, it surely would have been "dishonorable" for a U.S. President to bid farewell to Chiang Kai-shek and cultivate Mao. It is always risky to construct a cathedral of patriotism around the nation's necessities...
...ARMY. Lin Piao says that the People's Liberation Army was created and led by Mao, but is commanded by Lin. I say that what has been created [by the people] cannot be commanded by one person-even...