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...Guard introduction to the poster said that Liu had made his confession last October at a party caucus. And for all the Red Guard denunciations before and since, Liu is still President of China. The conclusion of Sinologists: Mao's opposition, including such "revisionists" as Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, is still too powerfully entrenched in the party apparatus, still has too much of a following in the countryside to be summarily ousted...
...Sato, who inherited the post of Premier after the retirement of ailing Liberal Democratic Party Leader Hayato Ikeda two years ago, this month's election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people's trust...
...point during a private caucus, Indiana's salty Democratic Governor, Roger Branigin, leaped up and suggested that maybe Johnson would decide not to run again. John Connally shot back: "Are you kidding?" Undaunted, Branigin barked: "Well, if I didn't have any more nuts in my basket than he's got, I don't think I'd want to walk through the woods again." And Missouri's Democratic Governor War ren Hearnes told a press conference: "If the President will not honestly re-evaluate the situation and make changes, I would be less than...
...milestone of sorts. Into an austere caucus chamber in Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...
...reporters waiting impatiently outside a caucus room in the Bundestag last week could only guess at the events inside. Then, suddenly, a rhythmic wave of stamping feet told them that the Bundestag delegates of West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union had elected a new candidate for Chancellor. Moments later, C.D.U. backbenchers rushed out with the news: the man was Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, the silver-haired Minister President of the southwestern state of Baden-WUrttemberg...