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With the Cultural Revolution, Mao originally intended to sweep away the musty party machinery and replace it with a more revolutionary and popular-based organization. The nucleus of his new organization-a "grand alliance" of loyal government workers, military men and Red Guards-is well established in Pe king, Shanghai and five of China's 26 provinces and regions. But in other areas, the Cultural Revolution has only succeeded in breaking down local organization without supplanting it with any workable substitute...
...bourgeois and feudal classes as well as all old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits." Official reports claimed that the Red Guards were received enthusiastically just about everywhere. In fact, reports from foreign correspondents at week's end stated that the Red Guards in Pe king had met resistance, resulting in at least 14 persons injured and perhaps nine deaths, and that troops had been called in to patrol the city at night...
...Pavilion restaurant whenever he came to Manhattan. When he did so, recalled an aide to the eatery's famed owner, "M. Soule saw to it that there was a bottle of Romance Conti at his table. Two of his favorite dishes are poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed...
...Narrowed the gap on Red Chinese entry to the U.N. with a 47-47 Assembly vote, and raised the question whether the U.S. would be able to keep Pe king out for more than another year...
...After all, he pointed out, Red China, Russia and the U.S. have occasional economic troubles; it is his proud boast that Burma borrows the best from both Communism and capitalism while keeping isolated and independent of each. Maybe, suggested some in the seminar, Brigadier General Tin Pe, until recently head of the people's stores and the most Marxist officer in Ne Win's Cabinet, was to blame for the distribution snafu? No, insisted Ne Win manfully, "the brigadier is not alone responsible for it. The entire government, including myself, is to blame. They have done it collectively...