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...Those PLA units intervening on Mao's side in the struggle are currently trying to calm everyone down. Some guard factories, others hand out leaflets urging opponents of Chairman Mao's "Cultural Revolution" to give up. Such passive support may be enough. If it isn't if the opposition becomes stronger, young men in the PLA may be ordered to quell resistance in their own villages, or even worse, among rebel PLA units...
Such clashes would severely test all the remarkable devices Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao have developed in the last seven years to tighten their political grip on the military. Since Lin became Defense Minister in 1959 he has tried to turn the PLA into a "Great School" of Maoist thought. He and Mao disapproved of the 1950's soldier, whose mind was directed toward tactics more than politics. The two of them could, with more justification than the Pentagon, use as their slogan for the 1960's: "Join the NEW Army." It is possible, from the scattered evidence...
...pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch of midriff showing. Now that it is winter, the style is long and sometimes belted; the naked visibility gap exists only while...
Resigning Cardinals. If the request is generally followed, the Catholic hier archy will be decimated. Spain's primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 89, sent his resignation to the Pope more than a year ago upon falling ill; it may now be accepted. Of the other Spanish cardinals, Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro...
...customs the northeasterners are more akin to the Lao than to the other 20 million Thais. They are fond of hard liquor, consuming vast quantities of a home-brewed rice whisky called lao khao, which burns with a fine blue flame when ignited. Their staple food is rice and pla raa-raw fish that has been allowed to rot for as long as six months. They also eat tarantulas drenched with fermented fish juice, bamboo shoots marinated in buffalo blood, ant eggs, fried bee larvae and tree lizards in chili sauce. These dishes are tasty, but they also contain liver...