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...youthful, growing society is animated by asabiyya, the spirit of social solidarity found in what he called "the desert aristocracy." But as the society becomes more "civilized," the cohesive group feeling begins to deteriorate in the face of the luxury and diversity of pursuits that become available. Mao Tse-tung might well be a student of Ibn-Khaldun; he deliberately plunged China into the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 to prevent precisely the sort of deterioration foreseen by the Berber sage. But Ibn-Khaldun also warned that such interventions would prove futile...
...exile in Spain, she twice returned alone to Argentina to end squabbles among the Peronistas. She acted as Perón's intermediary with the endless stream of supporters who visited him in Spain, and even represented him in China, where she had talks with both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai...
...began an open letter to Mao Tse-tung, plastered last week to a wall in downtown Peking by a number of workers who had journeyed from Hunan province. The letter complained of foot dragging in the five-month-old campaign to promote revolutionary fervor whose symbolic targets are 1) the ancient philosopher Confucius and 2) Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly died in a mysterious plane crash in September 1971. The open letter and other hand-printed posters appearing on walls throughout the country are the latest indications of an intensified drive against moderate Chinese officials...
Flying, her second book, records that painful process and the events of the frenetic year after the publication of Sexual Politics, when the author was being hailed as the Karl Marx and the Mao Tse-tung of women's liberation. Millett describes how her "sisters" alternately pushed her into the spotlight and chastised her for being a star. While making a feminist film documentary (Three Lives) in London and New York, and trying to maintain her quiet artist's life with her Japanese husband Fumio, she had to deal with the more bizarre aspects of what she calls...
...days later he was not at Peking airport to welcome President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. When Bhutto was ushered into Chairman Mao Tse-tung's book-lined study for a ceremonial audience, Chou relinquished his customary place of honor at Mao's right hand to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and sat on Mao's left instead. Chou conducted two hours of energetic negotiations with Bhutto the following day but excused himself from attending a banquet that evening, explaining, "I am not very well because...