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...Asia's oldest political parties. The revision is aimed at chopping out some of the deadwood and older party hacks and broadening Kuomintang membership to include more classes of people, particularly young new leaders with fresh ideas. "Our struggle with Red China is not just dialectic," insists Ku Cheng-kang, a member of the Kuomintang's 19-man Standing Committee. "Our political system and reforms have shown results, and we take pride in this as a viable alternative to Communism...
...Peking's factories and rail communications. Wall posters (see box) reported one incident in which anti-Mao mobs stormed the cabinet building and "bloody clashes ensued." Premier Chou En-lai addressed a group of railway men, urging that service be restored; he also complained that Railways Minister Lu Cheng-tsao had been held captive by the workers for five days...
Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...
...when he got involved in a classic accident that is dreaded by all sailors. His leg was tangled in a towing cable that suddenly snapped tight, all but amputating his right foot at the ankle joint. At Chung Shan Medical College Hospital No. 1 two hours later, Doctors Huang Cheng-ta and Li Pingheng, both 36, were faced with an extraordinary operation: the restoration of a foot attached to Liang's leg only by shreds of muscle, tendon and nerve. In the first report of their work to circulate outside Communist China, the two surgeons calmly spelled out their...
...only semivisible posts in the Nationalist government. These assignments, together with his envy-inspiring parentage, forced him to operate backstage and left his position in the Nationalist hierarchy somewhat uncertain. He emerged from the shadows only this year, at age 56, to become Defense Minister. When Vice President Chen Cheng died in March, any doubts that Chiang would succeed his father as Nationalist China's chief vanished. Another enigmatic element in Chiang's career is the twelve years he spent in the Soviet Union (1925-37). Accounts of his last ten years there, when Stalin was feuding with...