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Vietnam, will conduct research on the foreign policy of China from the death of Mao Tse-Tung to today, and will attempt an analysis of American energy policy...
...Chinese, in the past at least, had never seen it that way. When Belgrade recognized the Peking Communist government only four days after the proclamation of the Chinese People's Republic in 1949, Mao Tse-tung ignored the gesture. In subsequent years, the Chinese press regularly attacked Titoist "revisionism." In one famous outburst, the Peking People's Daily called Tito "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying with all his might to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...
...tunic, Hua, 57, obviously enjoyed every minute of the affair. As well he might. Aside from a brief visit to North Korea last spring, this was his first trip to a foreign country and -for a Chinese party chairman-the first-ever foreign journey farther afield than Moscow; Mao Tse-tung last visited the Kremlin in 1957 when relations with the Soviets were still civil...
DIED. Lo Jui-ching, 72, China's ex-Minister of Public Security under Mao Tse-tung throughout the 1950s, and later army chief of staff, who weathered political disgrace in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to make a remarkable comeback; of heart disease; in Peking. Lo was an early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central...
...worst atrocities of the 20th century all been committed in the name of some perverse pseudo science, usually during efforts to create a new heaven on earth, or even a "new man"? The Nazi notion of racial purity led inexorably to Auschwitz and the Final Solution. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sent millions to their deaths in the name of a supposedly moral cause-in their case, the desired triumph of socialism. Now the Cambodians have taken bloodbath sociology to its logical conclusion. Karl Marx declared that money was at the heart of man's original sin, the acquisition...