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...wanted a gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang Ching. She married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early...
Across the Formosa Strait, meanwhile, a somewhat better-known woman figured prominently in the Nationalists' celebration of Double Ten Day, marking the Oct. 10, 1911. uprising against the Man-chus. At the offices of Taiwan Television Enterprise. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pressed a control button with an elegantly gloved finger to inaugurate commercial television on the island. Formosa is starting out with 3,000 sets and four channels, a telling testimonial to the island's prosperity...
...Chinese best-seller this summer, with more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...
...Canton, and grew up in the violence of a dissolving society. When he was eleven, his father was murdered by a hired gangster because of a property dispute, and the killer went free owing to his political connections. At 17, while South China was still shakily controlled by Chiang Kaishek, Chan was a student at a police training school in Canton. He spoke openly against the Nationalist regime and was overheard by a plainclothesman who warned him that such talk would get him into trouble. To Chan's surprise, the plainclothesman made him a sort of protege-a riddle...
...finding tour before settling down to his new job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, received South Korea's 30-jewelled Order of Service Merit for his leadership of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War. Taylor later flew into Taiwan for weekend talks with Chiang Kaishek. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, in Italy to complete his 17-day, six-nation tour of the Middle East and Europe, was treated to a huge ovation in Naples. "Viva Johnson! Viva America!" cried the throngs. "Viva Napoli!" bellowed the Vice President. When he discovered a group of Italians about...