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...than 15 years, Chinese women, in their no-nonsense bobs and shapeless pantsuits, have been too busy to worry about how they looked. No woman leader has been seen wearing a dress in public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next...
...Even American journalists are not in a position to say how this will come out." Questioned as to whether U.S. reporters' relentless pursuit of the Watergate scandal might jibe with Mao Tse-tung's injunction that the press should "serve the people," she replied, "I would rather not comment on that...
Since coming to power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung has time and again extolled the discipline to be learned from manual labor. Over the years, China has periodically conducted "down to the countryside" campaigns, in which millions of city residents go off to work on farms for six months to three years or more. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a party member's willingness to "integrate" himself with the masses by doing manual labor became a test of his ideological purity. Professors, government bureaucrats and white-collar workers all spent time, often punitive, in what came...
...fact, the radical superstars of the 1960s are passé, along with their Marxist models: Castro, Che and increasingly, Mao Tse-tung. The new radicals, says Parisian Journalist Robert Pledge, who was a student activist in 1968, "have abandoned the idea of the political hero." Instead, they are promoting a more pragmatic, down-to-earth "Marxism with a human face...
...Chinese, however, are presently also concerned with a possible domestic power struggle, Salisbury said. Chairman Mao Tse Tung and most of the other top Chinese rulers are extremely old, he explained, and will be creating vacancies in the near future that will throw governmental rule up for grabs...