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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 3, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the of ars and stripes wednesday August John Roche by Arifi tub news from peking that Teng Hsiaoping has been fully rehabilitated and reinstalled in seven key positions is conclusive evidence the anti Mao under ground has the fight was billed As one Between the radicals and the but in fact it featured adventure its versus ration t doubt if the widow Mao and her friends in the gang of four How for Mally excelled from the communist party could distinguish a principle from a fire they wanted Power and doddering uld Mao was their if this strange Crew of opportunists was to it had to eliminate the coun try two rational fundamentalists the party bureaucracy and the Peoples liberation army t the party was first in partly be cause Mao carried to in logical extreme the View held by every Modem american president that the bureaucracy is the enemy of and partly because the chairman had been put Down party chief the result was the cultural revolution of ostensibly a quest for Reuvena for a return to first principles and rejection of structured the net result was collective millions of Young people wandered around China looking for evil bureaucrats to leaving chaos in their por Man youth became the incarnation of revolutionary a moral proposition that had As its useful byproduct the effective destruction of the Power of lius party a number of serious chinese communists look a dim View of this licensed what must sophisticated old Chou Menlai have thought of the nation that 20 million kids chanting the Chi Nese  off the pigs and waving a Little red Book full of maos banalities would save China How would a hardened old Pla marshal react in afraid Well never know Choua inner thoughts he survived on that basis but the marshals would be predictable  before they could be drafted and shipped off As Volunteer Farmers to Cen trial you had to catch the Pla watched the circus with increasing dismay and in april after the Young hooligans began stealing military equip ment and engaging in old fashioned capitalist they closed the maybe Mao believed that nonsense about redemption by a childrens but these Tough old survivors of the Long March had a vested interest in both their own they sensed they were next on the list with Defene minister Lin Piao As maos hit Man As chinese that of their Given the chinese Talent for it May be a Century before the Saga of maos designated is my Hunch is As the Young red guards were being loaded into Railroad cars for shipment to the genial climate of the military got him in their with Mao refusing to it is possible that watching the encirclement and realizing the clock was running tried a Palace Chou working handle Elove with the May have got wind of it Chou was capable of Boobie trapping either Lin lit out in 1971 and died in a plane crash in unlike who allegedly had no his top was a Blunt youngster he was Only 63 in 1mb by communist leadership hardly out of various accounts make it Clear Teng thought Mao had lost his marbles and he said so with vivid even Chou  save him from but the Pla gave him Sanctuary and he awaited which occurred in when Chou died in Teng seemed in place to succeed him As but Madame Mao still had custody of the moribund chairman with her Hench managed to Terig disgraced ills Pla friends loaned him a Safe House near Canton and went Back to the drawing the final act began Kwh the death of Mao and a coup attempt by his widow which blocked by military com Mander of by this time the Pla was in no mood for its Aulle possible the Friendly neighbourhood peking Hud always told her she could walk of the set Chiang Ching up for the tttllllt1ltlum William Thatcher warns up London when the British Learned it was an incidental piece of filed As a filler copy adorning the main event thai on the Day that president Jimmy Carter addressed the joint session of Congress it was the very first time he had set fool in Congress they were Unbe because in great Britain the House of commons is the Center of political life to become chief executive without having had extensive experience in Parlia ment is at least probable an possibly for uus reason u is indispensable that an Aspi rant prime minister perform Well in the House of we speak every our years about the requirement that a presidential contender do Well in a Public in us House of commons such debates As we set up As quadrennial they run off once or twice a and if you do poorly in before Long you Are out of Conten that is Why the showing a couple of weeks ago of Margaret Leader of the conservative was so i she took the pants off James the prime and the Chancellor of the exchequer and All England was Abuzz with the word that the lady is a Tough and knowledgeable r nothing k More embarrassing to a Brit ish socialist than to quote his utterance Over the Thatcher quoted the Chancellor of the exchequer in september 1974 when he if the Sodal contract is maintained the social contract is the term used to describe tha willingness of the Trade unions to limit their demands for annual increases in pay we can get inflation Down close to ten per cent by the end of next year and into single figures the year social contract was main quoted the same Man speaking a year there is now every Prospect of inflation getting Down to a single year on bythe end of Thatcher quoted the prime minis Ter speaking in if you can Grin and boar it for twelve months then by the end of 1977 the inflation will be where that Thatcher quoted the Chancellor of exchequer on july after that breakdown of the social contract the inflation should fall below twelve per cent Well before this time next but the lady was not through with she quoted a statement by him in March 1974 in which be Spolar of a h2 Bill Law deficit As announcing that the labor government would reduce u to three Yean later the deficit was w in 1974 the labor government pronounced the unemployment intolerably since then it has risen to Tfaye inflation rate is at 19 per the Pound is Down to Public spending is per cent of the the Chancellor of the exchequer was forced to admit that the Revenue that would come in Only cause after the englishmen would make other arrangements if All salaries in excess of per year were taxed at one Hundred per cent would Lake care of the governments expenses for Only tour and on half social observes Ferdi nand a Learned British int the same As soda demo Cracy presumes a continuing response but by or social socialism presumes a onetime entry into maw of socialism without Opportunity seriously to recon Sid England has democratic socialism in that its introduction follows the in operation is totally at Thompt unrest Kosiw to squalid to thetic Pefecto Public it is masquerade foisted upon an in and incredibly apathetic the Dlf Ferencak Between this Date of affairs and clarity and certainty a Tab which private Industry has usually been Lowed to operate in Sweden and wed Cert Many can hardly be v the parliamentary pressure being Etc erred by Thatcher must awaken the intellectuals of mount comments on their perform for All the cant about labor being the intellectuals nobody to the labor movement has applied any raw thought to the Central question of social democracy in inn last 30 u i want social i should Blush to be associated will such a Bunch of careerist the political situation is warming up la now that Summers Tift Tatt v a Luflin my Fuhwa of a it 1 to  
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