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...Tse-tung. A member of the Communist Party since 1927 and as a Politburo appointee, one of China's chief negotiators with Henry Kissinger, the rumpled, jowly Yeh has long been highly esteemed in both party and army circles. He has, however, always been a stalwart supporter of Mao's dictum that "the party commands the gun"; thus his appointment symbolized the reassertion of party authority over often independent-minded military leaders...
Died. Li Fu-chun, 75, Red China's master planner; in Peking. A veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral...
...sabotaging production, forming secret anti-Peking cells, and passing copied documents on to Taiwan's couriers. The number of op eratives is probably exaggerated; nonetheless, Taiwan's secret agents can claim credit for some sensational exposes. Notably, they brought to light the letter written by Mao Tse-tung to his wife in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in which Mao complained about the personality cult that was being built around him and sharply criticized his then heir-apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Disorder under Heaven. The phrase, an old quotation from Mao Tse-tung, was used to dramatize China's chief domestic rallying cry: total self-reliance. It also summed up China's reaction to Kissinger's four-day visit. Having arrived from Vladivostok after accompanying President Ford on his summit meeting with Soviet leaders, Kissinger was in Peking to reassure China that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly...
...energy and the Middle East, Kissinger devoted himself as much to a renewal of old friendships as to any attempt to break new ground. The Secretary paid a courtesy call on Premier Chou Enlai, 76, who was undergoing hospital treatment for heart disease. The hoped-for visit with Mao Tse-tung did not materialize. There was plenty of sightseeing, however, much of it done by Kissinger's wife Nancy and his two teen-age children. On the final day of the visit, the entire party flew to the ancient garden city of Suchow, 600 miles south of Peking, where...