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Through Liang's eyes, Mao appears as a cult figure, as widely known as a Pope and with equal mystical power. Liang recalls feeling guilt for nursery school wrondoing until told, "Chairman Mao has forgiven you." Later he goes on a pilgrimage to the civil war mountain stronghold of Mao, and on another to Peking, where he glimpses the party leader, Far from presenting a cool, outsider's perspective, or reactionary scorn, Liang's descriptions of these journeys are filled with personal pleasure and excitement...
...Free Democrats switched allegiance from the coalition led by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. A hometown hero in Hamburg, Schmidt had campaigned hard, accusing the Free Democrats of "betrayal." Kohl was chastened but not discouraged by his party's setback because Hamburg has traditionally been a Social Democratic stronghold. Though it would be premature to judge as the start of a nationwide trend, the opposition's return to power in Hamburg, it is an omen Kohl would do well to heed...
...first sign came from the northern provincial capital of Huesca, a traditionally conservative area, where the early returns showed the Socialists well ahead. Next came coastal Pontevedra, a longtime franquista stronghold in Galicia, which the Socialists came surprisingly close to carrying. Then the southern province of Alrneria, another conservative bastion, fell to the Socialists. Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile...
Spain's other major conservative stronghold, the business community, was cool. José María Cuevas, secretary-general of the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, said that while businessmen "do not agree with some of the Socialist plans," they sought "a sincere dialogue with the new government, because this is a fundamental of an employers' organization." Some businessmen expressed grave reservations at the prospect of a Socialist regime. Warned José Antonio Segurado, vice president of the employers' confederation: "You will see, after they try to spend too much to produce jobs they cannot deliver...
...recall how for six weeks in 1958 he bounced around the country in a propeller-driven plane, a Vice President exhorting the faithful in Nebraska, tramping through Alaska's Matanuska Valley (even though Alaska was not yet a state) and thundering his hopes in Michigan, labor's stronghold. Ike, wisely, had decided to stay in the White House. "The roof fell in," Nixon remembers with a melancholy laugh. "We lost 47 seats in the House...