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...Nixon--the nervous hands, the calculated expressions, the condescending attempts at explanation--are right on target. In fact, there is almost a naivete about this caricature that would make Nixon endearing if he weren't already so incredibly appalling. One moment he's attempting to ingratiate himself with Chairman Mao by telling a few Japanese jokes, the next he's justifying his Vietnam policy by citing the example of a war widow and flag-saluting son and saying, "I only do it to humor these people." Later, he's complaining to his psychiatrist that he and Pat have never shared...
...drive back and forth between the Roosevelt Hotel and the United Nations, a clump of austere functionaries clad in sober blue tunics, baggy matching trousers and caps straight out of a '20s movie. Style setters for the Beautiful People? Who would believe it? Yet so it seems. Chairman Mao's favorite jacket in particular-and just about anything else Chinese-is selling in Manhattan boutiques this fall like rice cakes at the Spring Festival...
Padded Tunic. She and her friends hired a pattern cutter to snip out standard American sizes and sent the results off to China, where the clothes were manufactured. Their bestseller is the classic Mao jacket, padded slightly for warmth, with a removable (and washable) white inner collar and buttons concealing snap closings. It retails for $33 (with matching trousers, it is called the jen-min chuang, or people's suit). The Dragon Ladies also offer other styles right out of Terry and the Pirates-a bright red medallion-print pantsuit at $70 and a long coat with slits...
While SDS'ers debated the relative merits of the Chinese, Cuban or Vietnamese revolutions, the crisis of an advanced industrial society--a crisis epochs removed from revolutionary upheavals in peasant societies--accelerated in the Nation around them. It was more exciting to glorify Che or Ho or Mao than to do the dirty work of researching and organizing around issues like rank-and-file revolts in trade unions, tenant conditions or day care...
...growing realization--simultaneously occurring to many radicals who have been steeped in the harsh realities of day-to-day local organizing for several years--that the fight for socialism is going to be long and hard One does not try and tell an American worker to support or oppose Mao's China if he is not yet convinced that his union does not serve his interest or that his government serves the ruling class. NAM has replaced nonsensical talk about seizing state power with a band of Yippies by seriously considering the best programs and organizing techniques with which...