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Taboo Subjects. Hemmed in by the crime and the cheesecake, though, there is some good, investigative reporting. It was Yugoslavia's tabloids that first reported indications of the Sino-Soviet split; they were also first to pick up rumblings of Mao's cultural revolution. They are openly proud of the fact that they are officially "uncensored." But they still know what subjects remain taboo. Usually those subjects involve Tito. The papers do not discuss his private life or his personality. Nor do they discuss his opponents. No paper has spoken up for Milovan Djilas, Tito's former...
...country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced that all remaining Red Chinese students -estimated at 65-must be out of the country by month...
Even the Communists of Eastern Europe, who in the past were content to condone China's aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...
...Russians, while enjoying the American discomfiture, certainly do not want the war to escalate to the point where they will be drawn into it any further. And the Chinese are involved in such a fanatical internal purge that they have sent shivers throughout Asia and further widened the Sino-Soviet rift...
...English reporter Edward Crankshaw of The Observer learned about the Sino-Soviet jockeying of 1957 and 1958 from "Eastern European contacts." His account, on which Rendell's theories are based, is in his book Moscow and Peking...