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...there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances...
Many experts assume that when Mao dies, his anointed heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, will take over the chairmanship of the party. His rule will most likely be only temporary; behind the scenes, the country may well be run by a collective leadership. Challengers are likely to rise from the radical left, headed by Mao's wife Chiang Ching and such Cultural Revolution stalwarts as Ideologue Chen Pota. Eventually, however, more moderate forces may prevail, perhaps clustered around Premier Chou En-lai and the politically savvy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Huang Yung-sheng...
Defensive Stance. The chants and the rhetoric will initially be pure Mao, but the leadership's preoccupation will be with such necessities as the restoration of law and order, the rehabilitation of the economy, a toning down of the conflict with the Soviets. There may even be concessions to private incentive. The compelling need to restore domestic calm might be enough to keep the nation out of foreign adventure. China's military stance is therefore likely to remain defensive for some time-provided the feud with the Soviets does not get out of hand. The dispute between...
Sick Fifth. Whatever the complexion of the post-Mao leadership, some very basic problems facing China will not fade away in the foreseeable future. The country will have a population of 1 billion by 1980, yet still lacks the solid industrial base that is a must for any modern power. Somehow, Peking will have to reassert the central government's authority over the vast hinterlands-something it lost during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time it will have to determine whether it should soften its standoffish attitude toward the rest of the world. Eventually it will no doubt...
...meeting the economic needs and aspirations of its people that it remains an unstable and sick fifth of humanity." Not until Peking's leaders begin to busy themselves with the task of satisfying those basic needs will China be able to set out on the long road that Mao talked about 20 years...