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...death had been falsely reported so many times in the past that China watchers were understandably leary of once again speculating about his health. Besides, the Peking Foreign Ministry publicly insisted that the Chairman is "alive and well," and Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, had been seen smiling and apparently unperturbed at a banquet a week after the crisis began...
...Outside the U.N., both Maoist and Nationalist sympathizers made their own show of strength, marching and chanting in support of the opposing motions before the delegates. The U.S. is pressing for adoption of its two-China policy for several reasons. While no longer insisting on the formal pretense that Chiang Kai-shek's regime on Taiwan is the legitimate government of China, Washington is reluctant to let a longstanding ally down-or to be seen to do so-and is also concerned that the U.N. might set an unfortunate precedent should it expel a well-behaved charter member. More...
...permanent seat on the 15-seat Security Council; that, too, became a virtual certainty when the U.S. went on record last week as supporting such a move. The remaining question is whether, in the weeks to come, the U.S. will be able to prevent the U.N. from altogether expelling Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese regime...
...admission and expulsion of members must be recommended to the General Assembly by the Security Council. If Peking is allowed to take over China's Security Council seat, it is certain to oppose any plan to retain Taipei's U.N. membership, since it argues-as does Chiang's regime-that the island is not a separate country but a part of China...
...told him that the blacks were making progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed of peoples of all nations and this gave it an advantage of the gradual accumulation of the wisdom of different countries...