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DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...
...wrong toward the end, what legacy did he leave? Mao thought, says Huang. "Mao Tse-tung's thought will remain the guide for our action for a long time to come. The history of contemporary China has proved that only Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse-tung thought can save China...
Since his death 4½ years ago, Mao Tse-tung has come under increasing criticism from the comrades who succeeded him. They have spoken bluntly about the "errors" Mao made in his later years, and have even authorized the taking down of Mao statues and pictures all over China. Yet long lines still gather whenever the Great Helmsman's mausoleum in Peking's Tienanmen Square is opened to the public. What the Communist Party needed was a definitive perspective on Mao. That judgment appeared to have been handed down in a speech by a comrade...
...guard in East Germany and other places, but there has never been a change in North Korea since the end of World War II. This is unique on earth. If you want to understand how peculiar this situation is, ask yourself this question: Could Brezhnev or even Mao Tse-tung himself nominate his own son to be his successor and get away with...
Communists like their leaders to be larger than life and to have accomplishments to match. For example, China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung made a big splash in 1966, when at age 72 he reportedly swam nine miles down the Yangtze River. Then Rumania's Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu made hunting history in 1978 by bagging the largest bear ever shot in Europe. Now it appears that Fidel Castro too can boast of a fancy feat. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he is said to have shot down singlehanded an American U-2 plane...