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...final split. Even if that split does not occur immediately on the diplomatic level, last week's exchanges confirmed that it is already a fact. In London, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin went so far as to urge sympathy for "people who are struggling against the dictatorial regime of Mao Tse-tung." Everyone knew that the Russians felt that way, but it was the first time that a ranking Soviet official had said it-and in a capitalist capital, of all places. Russia and China canceled their longstanding agreement permitting citizens of each nation to visit the other without visas...
...Dragon Lady? The Red Chinese have lately been seeing and hearing a good deal of Chiang Ching (rhymes with young thing), who only recently emerged from years of obscurity to assume a central role in Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. At first she simply denounced Mao's supposed enemies on the implicit authority carried by her closeness to him. But in the last month or two, the words have been backed by new power. She is now the deputy director of the Cultural Revolution's subcommittee and the sole adviser to the People's Liberation...
...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...
...name of Blue Apple. It was hardly a step up, since in old China actors and barbers were among the lowest of the low-partly because, like servants, they had to stand to perform their jobs. She was, in any case, only a grade B actress; after she married Mao, he had all of her films destroyed. But that was years later. First, at 19, she married a young Communist underground organizer, who made something of a Marxist, a nationalist and a feminist of her. As his reward, when he was sent to Shantung, she stayed behind in the Chinese...
That marriage foundered, too, in the confusion of China's civil war. Her first husband meanwhile set out to join Mao's Communist rebels, who had four years earlier made the Long March to the caves of Yenan, and Chiang Ching went with him. There she met Mao, 20 years her senior and then married to his third wife, the mother of his five children. The encounter was, as the Chinese tell it, like "dried firewood on roaring fire." Mao made Chiang Ching his private secretary and shipped his wife off to Moscow for "psychiatric treatment...