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Time and again, Mao Tse-tung has dropped out of sight for extended periods, only to make a dramatic reappearance-swimming in the Yangtze River, standing atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking, greeting a visiting dignitary. Last week, after yet another tantalizing absence, Mao was back again, this time to welcome Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie to Peking. As one of the 27 aides who accompanied the Lion of Judah told it, the Chairman seemed in the pink. Mao "was smiling and waved his arms to greet his royal visitor," he reported. As the two leaders began...
When he was a hot-eyed student leader in the 1930s, Westerners in China described him as "a zealous, devoted, incandescent Communist." Now Peking's ambassador to Canada, Huang Hua is radiating a different sort of incandescence. As the first envoy from Mao Tse-tung's regime to set up shop in North America, he has become the most sought-after diplomatic celebrity in the Western Hemisphere...
...date on the Chinese calendar is more sacred than Oct. 1, when Peking celebrates the final triumph of Mao Tse-tung's army over the Nationalists in 1949. But last week, for the first time in 22 years, there was no lavish National Day banquet, no parade through Tienanmen Square, no ringing editorials, no pecking-order appearance by Chairman Mao and the Chinese leadership atop the massive Gate of Heavenly Peace. For the watching world, there was also no explanation-only occasional half-hearted denunciations by Radio Peking of what it mocked as "rumormongering by the capitalists and revisionists...
WORKMEN had all but finished festooning the reviewing stand atop the mammoth vermilion-pillared Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking Peking's Tienanmen Square. The spectators' stand had been built and bamboo scaffolding prepared for the traditional giant portraits of Mao Tse-tung and Lenin. Squadrons of military and civilian marchers were rehearsing for the biggest event on the Chinese political calendar, the National Day parade, scheduled...
...such current troubles as the civil war in Pakistan. But when the 26th session of the General Assembly convenes in New York this week, under the presidency of Indonesia's Adam Malik, the delegates will be preoccupied with an even more historic matter: the admission of Mao Tse-tung's China to the United Nations...