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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has all but destroyed the last vestiges of social order. In fact, Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, admitted via wall poster that "the entire country is now in a state of civil...
...mainland, Chiang can only guess like everyone else. His one hope is that he will still be around when-and if-the Nationalists ever return. In case he is not, Chiang, now 79, has already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would...
...Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home, desperately needs the $488,000 annual rent it will collect from developers planning to erect an office building on the site. Even so, as wreckers began tearing up the roof and stage, A. & P. Heir Huntinqton Hartford, 55, perennial patron of lost causes, warned dolefully: "This is going to give America a black eye for years to come...
...Anna Quayle) who consoles herself by bawling the Kashmiri Song ("Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...
Part of the Mao faction's difficulties no doubt turn on straightforward personal power politics. Until the purge began, Liu Shao-chi had long been ranked No. 2 behind Mao, and was his heir apparent. Like any politician, Liu surely resented Lin's vault into the position of dauphin-and is fighting to cut him back down to size. In such a battle, Liu commands considerable resources. Mao may have been the sun shining on Red Chinese Communism, but in the last two decades it was Liu who got down on the ground and cultivated the party apparatus...