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Radical Chic. When in 1973 Warhol began painting portraits of Mao Tse-tung, critics praised them as a "radical" gesture-the translation of Mao, revolutionary hero, onto the walls of the American rich. But the Oriental superstar was chic already; there were Mao jackets all along Fifth Avenue. Though the Chairman was tubbier and more paternal, he was just as embalmed by celebrity as Jackie Kennedy or Elvis Presley, Warhol's earlier subjects. Moreover, the peacock colors in which Warhol packaged Mao's face had all the lushness that one associates with the most edible commercial...
That mysterious exchange of aphorisms took place in Peking last week, when visiting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos paid the derigueur courtesy call on venerable Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Accompanied by his wife Imelda and teen-age daughters Irene and Imee, Marcos spent four days in China and ended the visit by signing a declaration by which the Philippines became the 100th nation to recognize Peking. At the same time, Manila withdrew its recognition of the Chinese Nationalist government on Taiwan...
Already China has moved to strengthen its ties with Europe. It has agreed to establish formal relations with the Common Market, and last week sent Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the third most powerful man in Peking after Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, to Paris for talks with French leaders. Peking will probably also try to strengthen its ties with Japan and the U.S. Ironically, the Communist triumph in South Viet Nam could push China into a closer relationship with the West and Japan in an effort to offset growing Soviet influence in Southeast Asia...
...majored in "conventional Western history," and planned to go to law school until he happened to briefly sample Asian history. Before that course, Woodside had had no contact with Asian culture--he couldn't speak the languages, and he knew little about anything between Marco Polo and Mao Tse-tung. Suddenly, new worlds opened...
...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...