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...eager was China for reconciliation with the U.S. that it was prepared, according to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, to wait indefinitely to settle the problem of Taiwan, the island 90 miles off the coast, where the defeated Nationalists had taken refuge in 1949. The Chinese regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province and felt that the U.S. had been defending it as a separate state. Mao emphasized that he was far less concerned about the Taiwan issue than about the problems of the world (see SPECIAL SECTION...
...spectacular collapse of the Nixon Administration less than 19 months later. Next week's third and final installment will recount the increasingly acrimonious debate over detente as Watergate began to drain authority from the U.S. presidency and Kissinger's dramatic encounters with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung, the men who were guiding the destinies of America's principal adversaries...
...Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...tung's new Communist regime tried to expunge the last vestiges of feudal marriage by enacting China's first marriage-and-divorce law. The law banned compulsory arranged marriages, concubinage, child betrothal and interference in the remarriage of widows. It reluctantly permitted divorce, but only when "mediation and counseling" had failed and the marriage clearly could not go on. China needed stability and unity, it was reasoned, so couples were called upon to "put politics in command of everything" and stay together. In practice, divorce was usually denied when only one party, wife or husband, wanted...
...since Mao Tse-tung's China broke with Moscow in 1960 had the Communist world been rocked by such a bitter and open feud. To Soviet accusations of "slander" and "sacrilege," the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) last week responded with charges that the Kremlin was "authoritarian," "erratic" and bent on the "mortification of national sentiments and sovereignty." By week's end many observers believed that a complete break between the two parties might ensue...