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...fostering an eve-of-war mood, Peking might have been reflecting its genuine fear that an all-out struggle may be imminent. But the propaganda serves another purpose as well. Since the excesses of the Cultural Revolution that began in 1966, China has been riven by factionalism. Followers of Mao Tse-tung, "revisionist" backers of deposed President Liu Shao-chi, and ultraradical Red Guards are all fighting for power in at least nine of China's 26 provinces and regions. There have been riots, work stoppages and economic disruptions...
...about in gleaming black Mercedes-Benz limousines, which have replaced Soviet-made Chaikas as the official car. The fleet serves as a reminder that Ceauşescu has made West Germany his second-largest trading partner after Russia. Breaking with Communist tradition, Ceauşescu allowed newsmen, including one Mao-suited Chinese reporter, to sit in the gallery and witness the full proceedings. Delegates soon found...
...Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath red banners and Mao portraits, waiting to take some of the capital out of the capitalist...
Only one American politician could have said it: Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who committed that memorable malapropism while defending police misconduct during last year's Democratic Convention. Taking a leaf from Chairman Mao, Pocket Books has published Quotations from Mayor Daley-a bouquet of bluster, sanctimony and lost battles with the English language. Excerpts...
...basis of such evidence. But because it is presented more as a loosely buttressed personal obsession, it is not obliged either to stand or fall. Instead, the book's thesis simply sways provocatively to the ritual accompaniment of Harrington's prose-a flexible alloy of Mao-revolutionary and Norman Vincent Peale-inspirational...