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Reports have now reached Hong Kong that Chuang attempted to take his own life in Peking by hanging himself with his belt. The reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked...
...Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico...
...China's rubber-stamp parliament. The agenda will be pure formality: primarily, approving Cabinet appointments already made by party leaders. More time was needed to elect delegates to the congress, said Hua, because of relentless "interference and sabotage" by followers of the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and the Antiparty Clique of the late Defense Minister Lin Piao...
DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
...Chance). By inference and direct statement, Kosinski argues that people only make a bad situation worse by imagining that their lives have a purpose. Cruelty, Levanter muses, is magnified when those in authority "forget that their power is nothing more than a temporary camouflage of mortality." When a wealthy widow asks Levanter to marry her, he becomes frightened at the suggestion that the two of them can construct a fate for themselves: "A superstition lingered in him that if they did so chance might turn from a benefactor to the ultimate terrorist, punishing both of them for trying to control...