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...elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa...
Died. General Pai Chung-hsi, 73, Chiang Kai-shek's ablest commander, who, along with General Li Tsung-jen (with whom he was so closely associated that they were usually referred to collectively as "Li-Pai"), provided the Kuomintang with its best troops, fought effectively against war lords (1926), Japanese invaders (1937-45) and Reds until the mainland fell, at which point Pai joined Chiang on Formosa, Li went to the U.S.;* of a stroke; in Taipei...
...Chiang Ching (Jeong Jing (unranked...
...same time, many observers saw an interesting index of Mao's control over the Party in the surprise appearance of his wife, Chiang Ching, at spot number 26 on the list...
...drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...