Word: zedong
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...bequest comes a year and three days after Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Harvard. During his visit he announced the donation of Twenty-Four Histories, a classic work on Chinese history that was newly-published with comments by Mao Zedong, to the library...
DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...Glenn's current age when Glenn was born would himself have been 17 years old when the Civil War began. Then too, there are the people who saw Glenn's first flight who either will or won't be here for the second. Khrushchev, Kennedy, Johnson, Mao Zedong--all towering figures in 1962, all dust now. Castro--communism's beachhead in the West then, old and isolated now. Queen Elizabeth--young and remote monarch then, old and remote monarch...
Sadly, many family documents disappeared during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and it had long been believed that the records of Europe's Jews were destroyed during the Holocaust. That myth has been shattered, says Estelle Guzik, director of the New York Jewish Genealogical Society, adding that "a significant number of records remain, and people are uncovering them daily." After talking to relatives and tracking down as much about her family as she could in the U.S., Guzik traveled to Poland, and, against all odds, found in the small village of Korczyn the 1884 tombstone of her great-great-grandfather...
...night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases to one gun a month? "It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands." Sarah Brady, head of the lobby Handgun Control Inc., doubts that Heston will moderate the N.R.A. "A pretty face but the same old words," she says...