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Died. Tung Pi-wu, 89, elder statesman of Chinese Communism; in Peking. One of the youthful firebrands who helped Mao Tse-tung organize the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921, Tung was a veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province in 1934-35 and a member of the Politburo ever since Map's final victory...
Died. Taizo Ishizaka, 88, elder statesman of Japanese industry; of a stroke; in Tokyo. A successful insurance executive before World War II, Ishizaka was called from retirement in 1948 to rescue the Toshiba company from bankruptcy, went on to head the electronics giant for 17 years. An affable, scholarly man who made pottery and wrote poetry, he held hundreds of management, advisory and honorary posts in business and public affairs. In the mid-1960s, as chairman of Osaka's Expo '70, the redoubtable Ishizaka pressured a reluctant Premier Eisaku Sato into furnishing ample funds. After twelve years...
Throughout his controversial career, Elijah Muhammad was the nation's most potent preacher of black separatism. Yet when he died last week at 77, he was mourned as a statesman. Proclaimed Chicago's mayor Richard J. Daley: "Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam has been a consistent contributor to the social well-being of our city for more than 40 years." A New York Times editorial noted his movement's success "in rehabilitating and inspiring thousands of once defeated and despairing men and women...
...turn, have given him at least tacit support. In a series of pronouncements from Peking during the last few years, Sihanouk has indicated, in phrases reminiscent of Nixon, that he would like to return to Cambodia after Lon Nol's ouster as a kind of self-styled elder statesman. The Khmer have given little indication of what role they expect Sihanouk to play, but it seems that their current support is part of a long-term strategy of building a popular front including patriots loyal to Sihanouk...
...Crossman, a former Oxford don and journalist (he edited The New Statesman from 1970 to 1972) who died last spring, was devilishly unflattering in many of his reminiscences of Wilson, Britain's all-powerful civil service and even Queen Elizabeth. Financial Times Political Editor David Watt called the volume "the most important book about British politics to have been written in years," but civil servants in the office that serves the Cabinet found Cross-man's wealth of detail on how British government works to be profoundly disturbing. With Wilson's approval, they moved in effect...