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Jobs are scarce, partly because of the slow return of thousands of people who were shipped off to work in the countryside during the rule of Mao Tse-tung. City officials admit to only 20,000 unemployed, but the real figure is believed to be two to three times higher. Unemployment has led to a wave of petty thefts and burglaries, and the scarcity of many consumer goods has fostered various kinds of corruption, bribery, smuggling, fraud...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Journalist Harrison Salisbury, 75, first approached the Chinese government with the idea of retracing Mao Tse-tung's Long March twelve years ago. "They just laughed," he recalls. But Salisbury persisted, and last fall he was finally given the go-ahead for a 70-day journey along the more than 6,000-mile route that Communist troops trekked on foot to escape Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in 1934-35. With his wife Charlotte, an interpreter and General Qin Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions...
...Deng Xiaoping decided to take one of his grandsons to visit Mao Tse-tung...
...extended hours will be on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, and if business is good, the cafe may be open on Sundays next fall, according to Avery Tung '83, a representative of the Student Services Committee...
Many people heard Johnson in private yearn to sit down and talk over the world with China's Mao Tse-tung. L.B.J. did not raise the idea publicly or make it his doctrine. Richard Nixon did, and is credited with the most creative diplomatic idea...