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...most bellicose language yet. In a major policy statement printed by every major newspaper on the mainland, beetle-browed Defense Minister Lin Piao-one of the top seven men in Red China's hierarchy-called for worldwide subversion to destroy the U.S. and its allies. Recalling Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of enlisting the rural peasantry against city-based governments, Lin declared: "If North America and Western Europe can be called the cities of the world, then Asia, Africa and Latin America are the rural areas. The contemporary world revolution presents a picture of the encirclement...
...Tse-tung likes to swim, and every year millions of Chinese are urged to emulate him. Mao several times has swum the Yangtze, so last spring, 20,000 people made a mass crossing of the same river. In fact, reports the magazine China's Sport, swimming has become an "activity involving millions of all ages, and it has served as a call to hundreds of thousands to forgo swimming pools and take the plunge into the natural and rougher waters of China's many rivers and lakes as well as the open...
...Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung. It was at Peoples U. that White met and married Hsieh Ping, a classmate from Shanghai...
After the banquet came a three-hour visit with Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and President Liu Shao-chi. Malraux suddenly produced a letter for Mao from Charles de Gaulle. In Paris no one would say whether the letter was in Malraux's pocket when he left, or had reached him in Peking after he had advised the French embassy that things were going well...
...clarify matters very much when he finally surfaced in Hong Kong last week. Shrugging away questions about his mission, he allowed that France hoped to sponsor a Chinese art exhibition in Paris. Wasn't there more to his trip than that? Well, he had conferred with Mao Tse-tung on "the most important problems of our time, and it was obvious that Chairman Mao had as complete mastery of the situation as ever in his entire life...