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The occasion was Jimmy Carter's first White House state dinner, held in honor of Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo and his darkly glamorous wife. Carter and Rosalynn escorted their visitors down the grand staircase. But there were no trumpets, no color guard. Instead, the Presidents and...
The businessman who took part in this odd dialogue is about to become a star He was working out the script, costuming and lighting of his own personal sex fantasy, which he will act out with the Project, a theater group that has been performing in a creaking loft in...
Far from being over, the struggle to succeed Mao Tse-tung may have just begun. Most China watchers thought the battle for power had been settled-at least temporarily-when Hua Kuo-feng was named Party Chairman and then moved decisively to purge Mao's widow Chiang Ch'...
Hua promised a massive "purification"?involving heavy purges, apparently?of China's 30 million?member Communist Party that would start with "bad elements" who had been "smuggled" into high positions. Under the pretext of setting higher standards for jobs, the new leadership is likely to purge all those suspected...
Acknowledging such criticism, Politburo Member Le Due Tho at the Congress attacked party cadres who have been so lacking in devotion as to "degenerate, abuse their powers, commit fraudulent acts, violate the law, bully the masses and so forth." Le Due Tho also lashed out against "corruption, bureaucracy, arbitrariness and...