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...last week to advise President Johnson on Asian policy and to discuss with Dean Rusk the problems of his own divided kingdom. Not once, however, did he mention the problem that matters most, because Washington, with all its marbled wisdom, just would not have understood. A dragon threatens to defeat him in the January elections...
Unruh himself will not be able to sit this one out, but his usual followers have been noticeably cool toward Brown this year. Foremost of course is Carmen ("Dragon Lady") Warschaw, who was odds-on favorite to win the Democratic state chairmanship at the state convention in August. Brown's aides quietly worked for Assemblyman Charles Warren, her chief opponent, and Brown himself, despite previous promises to Mrs. Warschaw, refused to endorse her publicly...
...military government of Premier Ky-who was out on the hustings with his wife-favored no candidates but devoted all its energies to beating the drums for a turnout. Up and down Viet Nam, provincial drama teams mixed dragon dances with information skits and election slogans spreading the word. Sample slogan: "Voting is an honor of a citizen in an independent country." On TV, announcers folded the ballot, and dropped it into a box. Caravans of sound trucks rolled through smaller towns, and Radio Viet Nam belted out songs with lyrics like, "If we want...
...rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
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...