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...None of the U.S. draconologists has been to the mainland since the Communist conquest in 1949 (though most speak the language, and many were born there, the sons of missionaries). Yet their information about the country is often as good as, or even a little better, than any that Peking's leaders have themselves, thanks to China's primitive statistical system and the tendency of local commissars to exaggerate production figures for their superiors...
...Good Sense." The agents will eventually total 90 and work in all of Viet Nam's 43 provinces-none of which can yet be described as totally free from terror. After four weeks of in tensive study of rice production in the Philippines and Taiwan, they will get special instruction in booby traps and, if they request it, weaponry when they reach Viet Nam. Only then will they be ready to go out among the Vietnamese peasants, who make up 85% of the country's 14 million population...
...industry running again without its regular workers or managers, Maoist students took over in some places. That they were not faring well was as much as admitted by Peking's People's Daily, which complained that the anti-Maoists "think themselves wonderful and imagine that none of their work can be done without them. They are waiting to see us make laughingstocks of ourselves...
German tourists and businessmen, of course, are ahead of the diplomats in discovering how to get along with the East. West Germany is second only to the Soviet Union in trading with East ern Europe, second to none in sending tourists. Mercedes and Opels with West German license plates line the streets in front of the best hotels in Bucharest and Prague. In summer German tour ists bask under Bulgaria's sun at low-priced Black Sea resorts; in winter they fly down the ski trails of Rumania's Carpathian mountains or the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia...
Tass reported that Red Guards raged through the capital of Peking, sacking and seizing ministries, arresting people at will and generally adding to the anarchy. One Red Guard detachment even arrested another in Peking, and one of the arrested guards turned out to be none other than Chen Siao, son of Chen Yi, Red China's Mao-lining Foreign Minister. Against Mao's teen-age Red Guards, the anti-Mao establishment mobilized tens of thousands of indus trial workers, gave them pay raises and bonuses and sent many of them into Peking or other big cities to protest...