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...P.L.A. soldiers are volunteers serving two years. They receive only about $3 to $4 a month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
After lunch, Keng's men perform an amateur hour, including a skit in which the troops find eggs, a gift from the local peasants. They are not allowed to accept gifts, but finally reach a compromise and exchange a copy of the quotations of Chairman Mao and a letter of thanks for the eggs...
...scene in Peking's Great Hall of the People last week certainly had to be one of history's great ironies. There, while a Chinese army band played America, the Beautiful, a U.S. President merrily clinked mao-tai glasses with his Chinese hosts, long considered the true "baddies" of the Communist world. Nor was it just any American President either; it was a conservative Republican who has long had a reputation as being the perfect cold warrior. The Chinese people must have been deeply startled by the change in their own leaders' attitudes, but they, after...
...easily go there To deal and exchange with Mao...