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...editorial, Pravda heaped abuse on the Peking leadership, charging Mao Tse-tung with waging a "frantic struggle against the socialist countries." At a speech in Tashkent two weeks ago, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev complained that China had ignored several Soviet offers of a non-aggression pact, the latest made last June. Said Brezhnev: "It is characteristic that the leaders of the People's Republic of China, who scream throughout the world about some Soviet threat supposedly hanging over them, didn't even bother to reply to this concrete proposal of the Soviet Union...
...Tse-tung proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China...
...seemed a cultural crime. In mainland China during the late 1960s, as part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, the ancient art of Peking opera was deliberately put to death. The person responsible was Mao's wife, Chinese Cultural Queen Chiang Ching. To Madame Mao, Peking opera was bourgeois, reactionary, too concerned with court life. She replaced it with an unadorned, realistic style of opera that celebrates the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. Gone forever, or so it seemed, were the highly stylized music dramas about kings and concubines, scholars and lute...
...arriving 15-man French delegation. Seven of China's new 25-member Politburo were also on hand, including Premier Chou En-lai and the newly risen star Wang Hung-wen (TIME, Sept. 17). Pompidou himself matched the warmth of his welcome. Beginning his two-hour meeting with Mao Tse-tung−twice as long as Nixon's talk with the venerable Party Chairman−Pompidou declared: "It is a great honor for me to be able to meet the man who has changed the visage of the world...
...Perdue could relive the past few years he said there is apparently very little he would do differently. He paraphrased Mao Tse-tung: "If your enemy never bothers you, you must not be very effective; if he's always trying to lock you up or kill you, you must be doing something right...