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...first hints that a successor to Chairman Mao Tse-tung had been chosen came in a Hsinhua communique last week on the disposition of Mao's body. Capping a month of mourning, China's official news agency announced that the body of the Great Helmsman would be enshrined in a crystal sarcophagus in a mausoleum to be built in Peking. It was also noted that Mao's complete works would be prepared under the leadership of the Politburo, "headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng." It was the first time that Premier Hua had been referred...
...amount of praise for the social reforms that Mao Tse-tung brought to the Chinese people will ever hide the fact that he ranks with Hitler and Stalin because of the millions of people he had murdered or who died because of his actions...
...detente with the Soviet Union have been applauded by China's leaders. They made their fondness for Schlesinger and his convictions clear by inviting him on an elaborately planned tour of the Middle Kingdom, then by asking him to continue his visit after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Last week, at the close of his 23-day, 8,200-mile tour, the Chinese underlined their affection for Schlesinger by inviting him to meet three top men in China's post-Mao leadership...
...moment at least, China's leaders are holding steady to the foreign-policy course laid down by Mao Tse-tung. One sign is their decision to continue the long-planned, 23-day China tour by former U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in Chinese eyes a symbol of American toughness toward the Soviet Union. Last week, midway through his 7,250-mile itinerary, the ex-Secretary traveled to distant provinces along China's northern and western frontiers, including Tibet, which no American is known to have visited in 26 years. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, one of three...
...relic. It remains an architectural wonder. Designed as fortress, labyrinth and spiritual sanctuary, Potala rises 13 stories high and stretches 460 yards along the dominating hillside. Across the front of the palace, in giant white letters on a black background, was a solemn epitaph: ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, GREAT LEADER AND GREAT TEACHER...