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...hope that Mr. Nixon while in Peking will ask for some hints on full employment from Chairman Mao. If the President does not feel that he can be re-elected here in the States, then maybe the Chinese can put him back into the White House...
Every day 90 million Arabs intone the word inshallah-God willing. It is Allah who will reform society, not a Brezhnev or a Mao, and the typical Arab has little enthusiasm for tinkering with changes himself. A famous Arab expression is "Bookrah fil mishmish," which means that the apricots will be blooming tomorrow; it indicates a mahana attitude rivaling that of even Latin Americans. In such a culture, Communism has slim chance of succeeding. Understanding this, the Soviet Union up to now has been willing to sacrifice one Arab Communist Party after an- other in return for broader geopolitical gains...
...recognition to the Communist regime. In part this stems from U.S. pressure, but it also reflects a feeling of gratitude toward the Chiang Kai-shek regime, whose magnanimous treatment of the defeated Japanese after World War II was in marked contrast to that meted out by the Soviets and Mao's guerrillas...
...Hsin Chiao bar, habitues advise visitors to stick to the excellent domestic beer. Chinese champagne ($2 a bottle) is cloyingly sweet, and the fiery mao-tai, a vodka-like spirit distilled from millet that is a favorite formal banquet tipple, reams out the unwary Western esophagus like a Roto-Rooter...
Inscrutable Joys. Both trains and planes are kept wondrously neat, onboard food is excellent, the supply of hot tea is endless, and ticket prices are reasonable. Loudspeakers, however, relentlessly blare selections from the Mao-glorifying "The East Is Red" or the equally ear-splitting "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman." (Three guesses as to who the helmsman happens...