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Could the documents have been secret papers intended to ensure a warm reception for an important Chinese defector? One theory had it that the defector was former President Liu Shaochi, who had been in detention since he was purged as a pro-Soviet "revisionist" in 1967 during the Great Proletarian...
Scoring Well. If there was indeed an attempted defection, it would be a symptom, not a cause of the political jousting in Peking. Most probably, that jousting is bound up with the recently intensified efforts by army pragmatists and government moderates to rid the party of the leftist radicals who...
Besides the fact that Lin is not physically robust, his political health may also be failing. He was closely identified with the excesses of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, and since then has been associated with the camp of the "ultraleftists"-die-hards of the Red Guard...
The passions and factionalism of Irish politics compel him to perform a nonstop tightrope act between moderates and militants; he is working for a peaceful solution to the ageless "Irish question" while trying to avoid an outright collision with the Irish Republican Army, whose most extreme faction is trying to...
Perhaps the most discouraging feature of Ulster's bloody week was the fact that the militants on both sides, who hold the whip hand, were growing in strength while moderates stood helplessly by. As Ivan Cooper, the only Protestant M.P. among the Ulster Parliament's Catholic opposition, says...