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...another border confrontation with the Soviets, dismissed by most observers, to the more likely possibility of disagreement over an impending meeting of the National Peoples' Congress. Nothing could be held wholly impossible. But most China-watching experts focused their attention on the fate of Mao's heir-designate, Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao...
...resulting stress upon young Bonanno, Talese unifies his narrative with a most compelling theme-tradition and change in America. On the surface, Bill Bonanno is a homogenized American who went to the University of Arizona, studied business administration and belonged to the ROTC. But in his bones he is heir apparent to a kind of feudal power and respect that has its roots in Sicily. There is no indication that Bill ever seriously thought of doing anything else but go into his father's business. Such an attitude was a sign of love and loyalty that undoubtedly pleased...
...poet's release finally enabled him to join his daughter and her husband--the prince and heir to a long-crumbled kingdom--in their castle in the Tyrol...
...grand-jury presentment, suppressed since April, was at last made public. It charged that Daley's heir apparent, Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, had conspired to obstruct justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of seven surviving Panthers accused of attempted murder. Indicted on the same charges were Hanrahan's assistant, who planned the raid, the eight policemen who entered the Panther pad and four other cops who subsequently became involved in the investigation. Police Superintendent James Conlisk was named as a coconspirator, but was not indicted...
...deplorable." Taiwan's Ambassador to the U.S. blasted Nixon's move. Outwardly, Chiang Kai-shek kept his dignified cool by spending some time at the Evergreen Hotel on Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, his favorite summer resort. But both Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei's Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet...