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...hear." There were two cardinal tenets I We are doing the right thing? We are doing it well When the China experts with three names apiece--John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service indicated that the Chinese Nationalists were losing and only a rapprochement with the Communists could prevent Chiang Kai-snek's defeat they were booted out of office as traitors When during the Cuban missile crisis Adlai Stevenson suggested that the United States remove from Turkey its obsolete missiles (which the President had already slated for the dustbin) so that the Russians could withdraw from Cuba and save...
Writing, probably from Hangchow, to his wife Chiang Ching on July 8, 1966, Mao said: "I have never believed that those booklets of mine possessed so much magic. Now, thanks to this babbling, the whole nation has been caught up in it. I expressed disagreement with my friend, but what was the use? The newspapers and periodicals exaggerated it all even more and popularized the magic. Under such circumstances I had no choice but to give way." The allusion to "my friend" points clearly to Mao's since disgraced heir presumptive, Lin Piao, who had edited the Red Book...
...Free. Studying up there with gulls named Sullivan and Chiang, Jonathan carries his quest for the joy of perfection to unimaginable flight skills and speeds. He finally learns to move from here to there instantly, just by thinking of it. He also learns that there is no heaven and no death. Existence is simply an infinite possibility of self-perfection through many different levels of consciousness. When he wonders why there are so few gulls at this level, he gets a heavy message from Sullivan. Unlike Jonathan, most gulls are interested only in eating, and so do not progress. "Learn...
...party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist Chinese and never denied in Peking, Yao is married to Hsiao Li, Mao's daughter by his third wife Chiang Ching. The far-left Chiang Ching happens to be a close political ally of Yao's. There have been serious ideological differences between Chou and Yao, and some Washington experts believe that the wily Premier may have been singling out the younger man now as a first step toward putting him down later...
Like most countries, the U.S. has a weakness for panaceas, a fondness for recrimination after failure. But history and human nature dash many widely held hopes and apparently reasonable judgments. For a long time, Luce could not admit to himself Chiang's fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly...