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...known to be active, and its five-man standing committee has only two functioning members, Mao and Premier Chou Enlai. This week's congress must fill those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt a new party constitution, one which no longer names Lin as Mao's successor. The congress must also provide some answers for crucial economic questions, such as how to increase food production, how much to stress industrialization...
...JOHN B. CONNALLY JR., 56, the newest Republican from Texas, benefits from Watergate because he chose a moment when the G.O.P. was at an ebb to switch allegiance. Even deep-dyed Republicans are saying in effect: "He came over not as an opportunist but when we really needed...
...leader of the Christian Democrats in parliament, Ranier Barzel, 48, had to fend off steady criticism from both his Social Democratic Party foes and his colleagues within the alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and Bavaria's Christian Social Union. He has been assailed as an ambitious opportunist with an all too obvious thirst for power and condemned for his irritating, seemingly insincere political style. As one S.D.P. leader put it: "After every 5,000 words, he has to have his oil changed...
...proper cunning and just the right kind of careful menace and restrained violence. He is not like a Graham Greene operative, haunted by guilt, shrouded in original sin. John Le Carre's world of moral acrostics would be alien to him. Lancaster plays a thug, an opportunist for whom commitment is solely a matter of expediency. But the movie does not give him much scope to develop any of this. Sometimes, standing on a dark street in Vienna while waiting for a contact, he looks uncertain and lost...
MORE political epitaphs have been written for Socialist Francois Maurice Mitterrand in France than for Richard Nixon in the U.S. His current allies, the Communists, once dismissed him as a fascist. The Gaullists have described him as a covert Bolshevik, a shifty opportunist and a Machiavellian operator...