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...group that zealously subscribes to the communist doctrine of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, Nepal's rebels last week showed an unsettling knack for finding the pressure points of a capitalist society. Following a firebomb attack on Kathmandu's luxury Soaltee Crowne Plaza hotel, the Maoists demanded the closure of a dozen multinational companies and declared a blockade of the main roads leading into the capital?upon which its 1.5 million residents depend for everything from fuel to food. Vegetable prices rose, tourists canceled their visits and officials warned that fuel supplies could run dry by next week. The companies that...
...follow the blockade, including sabotage attacks in Kathmandu. That's always been the plan." A full-scale siege is unlikely?the Maoists remain an outnumbered guerrilla force?but their war of harassment and attrition shows no signs of slowing. And they are sure to be familiar with one of Mao's tenets: "Fight no battle you are not sure of winning...
...After being purged by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution as a capitalist roader and an archrevisionist, Deng rejoined the Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead...
...bond between Bush and Deng bore fruit. When Bush left Beijing, Deng gave him an invitation from Mao to return to China at any time, go anywhere he wanted and bring whomever he wished. Deng then congratulated Bush on being promoted to head the CIA (where I worked at the time). In September 1977, Bush took Deng up on Mao's offer and went to China for 16 days. In the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he and Deng discussed the best way to use American technology to develop China's offshore oil reserves, and Bush made...
...paralyzed by a stroke. The doctors treated the teen with scorn when he asked for information. Says Huang: "I decided then that I would become a different kind of physician." Still, the chance seemed slim. This was during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when universities had been closed; Chairman Mao ordered students into the countryside to learn from the peasantry, so Huang spent years planting wheat on a farm. When the nearest medical school reopened in 1978, he won a place in its first class at age 23. He later studied at New York University and Rutgers, where Dr. Young...