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The hardliners, such as Iraq and Libya, insist that only armed struggle can persuade Israel to yield. Syria's President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the...
But over the past few years he has shrewdly and forthrightly taken stands guaranteed to appeal to the very people who are defecting from Javits. After serving as a rather mild U.S. Attorney General under President Johnson, he made a celebrated wartime trip to Hanoi, where he audaciously attacked U.S...
Succession, moreover, is not simply a matter of age. Since the devastating Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, Chou -with Mao's blessing-has gone a long way toward reconstituting the shattered party apparatus. But five years after reconstruction began, the task is only half completed. Of the 29 top...
Led by Mao's actress-wife Chiang Ching, 60, the party radicals are trying to keep ah've the intransigent revolutionary zeal of the Cultural Revolution. They see the pragmatic policies of Chou and the moderates threatening the purity of China's revolution. They are opposed, it...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the...