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Born into a peasant family, he graduated from Hsinhua Fine Arts Academy in Shanghai, then commanded one of Mao Tse-tung's Red Army regiments. During the historic Long March in the mid-1930s, he wrote two plays for his comrades and produced a valued collection of sketches...
...weeks before Ceauşescu's 55th birthday in January, the entire government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected to the Communist Party's 185-member Central Committee. "You might say the personality cult is a sort of antidote...
...city's main thoroughfare, once full of rickshas and pedicabs, was empty except for some blue-clad bicyclists. The once glittering shopwindows were covered over by giant red billboards: LONG LIVE THE GREAT UNITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD; HOLD HIGH THE GREAT RED BANNER OF MAO TSE-TUNG THOUGHT. We passed the old racecourse, which right after World War II had been converted into a nine-hole golf course. It was then customary for each player to use two Chinese caddies, one to carry the bag and one to watch the ball. Now the golf course...
...hapless bartender at Charlie's--on "Mai Tai's." "In point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking People's Luau...
...Chinese medical team to the U.S., for instance, was given more space than a trip by the same team to France, a sure sign-experts claim-of China's priorities in foreign affairs. Several weeks ago, two large, front-page pictures of Henry Kissinger with Chairman Mao Tse-tung confirmed to China watchers that another thaw in Sino-American relations was indeed occurring...