Chinese Communist "ambassador" to Greece Chou Po-ping left Athens for Peiping without disclosing a reason. Some observers believed he was being recalled due to a diplomatic gaffe. He mistook the Israeli embassy for that of Kuwait and attended a reception to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of Israel. Peiping does not recognize Israel.
Chinese Communist "premier" Chou En-lai, interviewed by Jean Marin of Agence France Presse, accused the Soviet Union of being overly sensitive about Peiping's interest in establishing friendly relations with the European Economic Community.
Peiping watchers in Taipei disclosed that Tao Chu, one of the top Communist officials purged in the "cultural revolution," spoke at an export trade conference in Canton last March. They predicted he may have been reinstated to some degree.
The New York Times turned down a formal request by Chou Nan, "counselor" of the Chinese Communist "mission" to the United Nations, to reject future advertisements from anti-Peiping groups. The newspaper said, "Although the protest did not say so directly, it was indicated that the Times would not be allowed to open a bureau (in Peiping) unless it agreed to refuse such advertisements. "
MAY 17 - The Japanese newspaper Jiyu Shimbun (Free Press) reported Wang Chen-chih, better known in Japan as Sadaharu Oh, had been harassed by the Chinese Communists. Peiping refused to deliver US$13,000 remitted by the baseball star's father to a relative in Wenchou, Chekiang, unless Oh would consent to visit the Chinese mainland.
MAY 18 - At least two party organs, Red Flag and People's Daily, admitted an "evil wind" had been blowing across the Chinese mainland since the Bamboo Curtain was raised a little to admit a handful of "tourists." Young men and women on the Chinese mainland were said to be too attracted to the capitalistic way of life.
MAY 19 - Chou En-lai met with David K.E. Bruce, head of the U.S. liaison office in Peiping. Also present were Alfred L. Jenkins and John Holdridge, deputy chiefs, and Nicholas Platt on the U.S. side and Chiao Kuan-hua, "vice minister of foreign affairs," and Huang Chen, chief of the "liaison office" in the United States, on the Chinese Communist side.
Peiping and Australia agreed to sign a trade agreement which included the formation of a joint trade committee and a long-term wheat arrangement, the "New China News Agency" reported. The announcement came in a joint communique following the visit of Australian Minister for Overseas Trade Dr. Jim Cairns.
Under tight security, a 16-member gymnastic team from Peiping arrived in New York for a three-week tour of the United States and Canada. The team of eight men and eight women was accompanied by 15 officials, doctors and coaches.
Peiping and Denmark concluded a civil aviation agreement. SAS will be allowed to fly to the Chinese mainland and Japan via Moscow.
Peiping decided to increase its budget for television advertisement in Hongkong by four times. About US$750,000 will be spent. Overall spending on Hongkong advertising - including radio, newspapers and cinema - is expected to reach US$1.8 million, nearly two times the 1972 figure.
MAY 20 - Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, president of the Free China Relief Association, said the May (1962) refugee exodus was vivid testimony to the strong opposition of the Chinese people on the mainland to their Communist slavemasters. In a statement for the 11th anniversary of the May exodus, Dr. Ku said refugees are continuing to flee the Chinese mainland for freedom.
Peiping is sending its first trade mission to the Philippines. The Philippine Daily Express said this was disclosed by a member of a 15-man trade mission which visited the Chinese mainland.
Higher prices at the Canton trade fair shocked foreign visitors. Newsweek said increases were across the board. Cotton textiles were up 50 per cent, silks 100 per cent, handicrafts 200 to 300 per cent and carved jade 1,000 per cent.
Chinese Communist "foreign minister" Chi Peng-fei described the Chinese mainland as still under development. "We still have a long way to go," Chi said.
Thousands of people in Canton are learning English via radio. The thrice-daily course is similar to that started at Shanghai last March and in Peiping toward the end of last year.
MAY 21 - David Bruce, head of the American liaison office in Peiping, was not invited to a reception on Cameroun's national day. This was the first big official diplomatic reception since Bruce's arrival.
Japan will dispatch government officials to Peiping to conduct negotiations on the establishment of commercial air flights, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. The Republic of China's China Airlines and Japan Airlines have continued commercial service despite the severance of diplomatic relations last September.
China News Agency reported Chiang Ching, Mao Tse-tung's wife, has her own staff whose principal duty is to keep an eye on the armed forces. Quoting a young refugee, the report said Chiang Ching set up her office in a villa at Wanshoushan (Longevity Mountain) in suburban Peiping in 1969. She tries to keep troops in line by demanding blind allegiance to her husband, the refugee said.
MAY 22 - Peiping will never change its goal of "burying capitalism," freedom-seekers said in Taipei. Some 300 freedom-seekers met to mark the 11th anniversary of the Hongkong May exodus. They adopted a declaration warning the free world not to fall into Peiping's trap.
American China analysts in Hongkong said it is "difficult to discern" any signs of improvement in relations between Peiping and Moscow. "Peiping in recent weeks has taken the Soviet leadership to task on a host of issues, including the renaming of several towns in Soviet Siberia, the territorial waters question and lands held by the Soviet Union since the end of World War II," said Current Scene. "Moscow, in turn, has blamed Peiping for the lack of a settlement in the Peiping Moscow talks and has voiced its pique over Peiping's charges."
A former Communist cadre said living behind the Bamboo Curtain was like committing suicide slowly. Cheng Chen-hsiang, formerly a mechanical engineer in a Communist factory in Kwangtung, voiced his condemnation of Maoist tyranny on the mainland in Taipei. Cheng, 35, and his 22-year-old wife, escaped to Hongkong.
Singapore is in no hurry to establish diplomatic ties with Peiping because such a move might restrict its flexibility in foreign affairs, Foreign Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam said in an interview.
Peiping is preparing to launch weather satellites, Chi Sheng-ying, Chinese Communist "deputy director" of the "Central Meteorological Institute," said in Paris.
MAY 23 - "Creative works" by amateur worker-writers are booming in newspapers, periodicals and other publications of Peiping. This is the "new literature" demanded by Mao Tse-tung to break away from traditional Chinese literature.
Japan's Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira may be dispatched to Peiping when Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visits the Soviet Union in August. Ohira would help expedite the civil aviation talks.
Peiping and Greece signed agreements on civil aviation, trade and payments, and on maritime transportation.
The spring Canton Trade Fair saw the conclusion between Japan and the Chinese Communists of export and import contracts totaling US$220 million. The Japanese said the volume of transactions was smaller than in the autumn of 1972, although the monetary volume was about 10 per cent larger.
MAY 24 - Australia sold another 50,000 tons of sugar to the Chinese mainland.
Chinese Communist "ambassador" to Greece Chou Po-ping, who inadvertently attended an Israeli reception in Athens, was listed by NCNA as a guest at a dinner given by Greece's deputy prime minister, Nikolaos Macarezos, for Peiping officials.
MAY 25 - Huang Chen, chief of Peiping's liaison office in the United States, left for Washington.
Making common cause with "revanchists" and "neofascists," Peiping is trying to bloc moves toward detente in Europe, the Soviet Union charged. The Chinese Communists are doing this by "smearing" the Soviet Union and encouraging fears in Western Europe about "Moscow's aggressiveness," a Tass commentator said.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said Peiping admitted that certain "Lin Piao elements" were training cadres for Philippine rebel movements. Marcos said he was satisfied with Chou En-lai's assurances that this would not continue.
About 50 parliamentary members of the ruling Japanese Liberal-Democratic Party said there was no need for early conclusion of a civil aviation agreement with Peiping and urged maintenance of the Tokyo-Taipei air route.
MAY 26 - An intellectual who fled to freedom from the Chinese mainland predicted in Taipei that the Peiping regime would be doomed by its own contradictions and chaos. Chang Yung-fu, 40, a 1950 graduate of the law department of the "national Chungshan university," swam to Hongkong in May of 1972.
MAY 27 - President Nixon has helped maintain peace between Moscow and Peiping by telling Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev that a Moscow-Peiping war would be against America's best interests, columnist Jack Anderson said.
MAY 28 - The Soviet Union "is shouting itself hoarse in support of the tottering (Cambodia President) Lon Nol clique," NCNA said. The article said that Cambodian insurgents have control of "90 per cent of Cambodian territory and 85 per cent of the population," so that the Soviet Union "is jittery like ants on a hot pan."
A team of British officials arrived in Peiping to negotiate an aviation agreement with Peiping.
A delegation of U.S. scientists visiting Peiping met with Chou En-lai, NCNA reported. The delegation was led by Dr. Emil Smith.
Peiping gave landlocked Zambia US$10 million to help it overcome problems caused by the prolonged closure of the Zambian-Rhodesian border, the Zambia News Agency reported. President Kenneth Kaunda announced the grant at a ceremony marking the opening of a Chinese Communist-built bridge and 200-mile road.
Australia opened a telex link with Peiping. The Overseas Telecommunications Commission service initially will be available to Peiping only. When a receiving station is completed at Shanghai, OTC will relay traffic to the Chinese mainland via satellite.
Peiping accused Moscow of trying to sabotage the struggle against the Phnom Penh government of President Lon Nol when victory was in sight. NCNA said the Soviet Union was distorting the nature of the war in Cambodia and disregarding the interests of the Cambodian people.
Peiping has frequently declared that women on the Chinese mainland were "liberated" with the Communist takeover but recent reports indicated that equality has yet to be achieved. Women have difficulty in becoming senior officials, in obtaining the same pay as men and even in getting work in factories. In some rural areas they are still treated as slaves and vassals.
MAY 29 - Japan soon will start preliminary talks with Peiping for a shipping agreement regulating port calls, the Japanese Transport Ministry said. Officials said the ministry is gathering data on Chinese Communist shipping regulations.
MAY 30 - Huang Chen, wearing a blue Mao suit and cap, arrived in Washington to open a liaison office.
Peiping started work on new building projects which will change its skyline, NCNA reported. Among them are a terminal for the airport, a building for the Peiping Hotel and a long-distance telephone building.
Japanese steel industry sources said an agreement had been reached for export of 11,900 metric tons of special steel to the Chinese mainland.
A 25-man Japanese trade mission of top businessmen headed by former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama will visit Peiping for 10 days in June, Japanese sources said.
President Nixon told the Chinese Communist liaison chief in Washington that he hoped to visit the mainland again. "It is very good news," said Huang Chen. The president received Huang an hour before his scheduled departure for Iceland and a summit meeting with the French President Georges Pompidou.
The Japanese government will import about 4,000 tons of glutinous rice from the Chinese mainland.
MAY 31 - The British Foreign Office refused comment on reports that British agents were bugging the Chinese Communist diplomatic mission in London. The German magazine Stern reported that attempts to bug the flat involved in the government sex scandal failed because agents were eavesdropping electronically on Chinese Communist diplomats next door.
JUNE 1 - The Soviet Union's Embassy in Washington denied reports that U.S. diplomatic intervention prevented a Moscow nuclear attack on Peiping.
The head of an American aid agency in Hongkong said Peiping is tightening up on the exodus of refugees. Halleck L. Rose, director of the United States International Rescue Committee, said: "We've been getting very few refugees recently. There is a reason but we can't say exactly what it is. If (Red) China really wanted to put a complete halt to refugees, I'm sure she could."
Peiping revalued the JMP (Jen Min Pi) yuan against the Hongkong dollar. Chinese Communist banks in Hongkong announced the new rate of JMP$38.41 to HK$100 Compared with the old rate of JMP$38. 99, it was revalued by 1.45 per cent.
Mauritian Minister of External Affairs, Tourism and Immigration Charles Gaetan Duval left Shanghai for Canton by special plane, NCNA reported.
Chinese Communists have reached Iceland. Chinese Communist "ambassador" Chen Tung was making the social rounds, although he speaks only Chinese.
The United States and Peiping view their establishment of "liaison offices" in Peiping and Washington as moves of considerable significance, a top State Department official said. Addressing the "U.S.-(Red) China Trade Conference," Alfred Jenkins, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat in Peiping, said that one of the principal objectives of the offices is to avoid misunderstandings.
Peiping and Sweden signed a civil air transportation agreement.
Peiping and the United States are negotiating for cooperative exploitation of massive underseas oil reserves along the mainland east and southeast coasts, Washington sources said.
JUNE 2 - Some 9,530,000 mou (about 1,600,000 acres) of land on the Chinese mainland is being exclusively used to grow opium poppies in the Peiping regime's narcotics war against the free world, ROC Interior Minister Lin Chin-sheng disclosed.
Hotel rates and restaurant charges in Peiping and other cities on the Chinese mainland have been hiked by 50 per cent. Laundry charges at hotels are up 60 per cent. A circular to embassies in Peiping indicated guests at Peitaiho, a seaside resort for the foreign community, have doubled or trebled.
Peiping journalists visiting the U.S. Congress received a welcome usually accorded parliamentarians. Congressional leaders of both parties gave a luncheon for the 21 journalists and presented them with gifts of pens, letter openers and ash trays.
Peasants in Kwangtung province earn a quarter of their slender income from private farming. They cultivate "private plots," raise pigs, chickens and ducks, keep bee hives and find other ways of supplementing their wages from the communes. Peasants are obliged to sell 60 per cent of private output to the Communist authorities at fixed prices. They may consume the rest or sell it on local free markets every five days.
Peiping is about to launch a drive to increase its influence in and contacts with Southeast Asia, where it has "ambassadors" only in Rangoon and Vientiane.
JUNE 3 - Peiping will not be allowed to join the Olympic Committee, according to Lord Killanin, the president. "A country has to have federations for five sports which are recognized internationally before it can apply for Olympic membership. (Red) China doesn't have them," he said.
Former French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas watched Chinese Communist "people's liberation army" troops demonstrating battle techniques on the third day of his visit to Peiping.
Chinese Communists have been conducting a new campaign to instigate Malaysian Communists to wage open revolts in Sarawak, according to a Chinese Communist document surfaced by Republic of China intelligence sources.
Children on the Chinese mainland are being taught to loathe the old society. A permanent exhibition has been opened in Shanghai, NCNA reported. Older workers and former poor peasants are invited to talk about their life so as to give the younger generation "class education."
JUNE 4 - Senior Chinese Communist officials, including Chou En-lai, were among 5,000 who welcomed a high-powered North Vietnamese delegation on its arrival in Peiping, NCNA reported. The delegation, led by North Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and Le Duan, first secretary of the ruling Vietnam Workers' Party, is the first top-level North Vietnamese delegation to visit the Chinese mainland since the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement last January. The North Vietnamese leaders were to discuss postwar rehabilitation.
War is inevitable between the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, a political commentator said in Taipei. This is the consensus of experts on Soviet and Chinese Communist affairs, said Chen Yu-ching, director of the Overseas Affairs Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee. Chen said the Soviets are "more determined than ever" to wage war against the Chinese Communists. Forty-nine Red Army divisions of over one million troops have been stationed along the 3,000-mile border with the Chinese Communists. Another 35 divisions are deployed in Outer Mongolia.
JUNE 5 - Russia and the Chinese Communists are quietly expanding military aid to African countries as they maneuver for influence and support there, according to U.S. intelligence sources.
The Thai cabinet agreed to allow a Chinese Communist ping pong team to play in Bangkokg. A Thai team will go to Peiping in August.
An attempt to kill Chang Chun-chiao, chairman of the "Shanghai revolutionary committee," resulted in the death of 48 workmen and injury to hundreds of others, according to a Taipei intelligence report. The incident occurred at a dormitory for retired factory workers at Tsaochiao new village, Shanghai.
Peiping granted a HK$175 million loan to Mauritius for the construction of an airport capable of handling Boeing 747 jumbo jets and supersonic Concordes. This was disclosed by Mauritian Foreign Minister Gaetan Duval, who arrived in Hongkong from a visit to the Chinese mainland.
Chou En-lai demanded that the United States stop bombing Cambodia and end its military activities there. He said no interference in Indochina would be tolerated.
Spokesmen for both Exxon and Mobil Companies denied that they were involved in negotiations for oil exploration off the Chinese mainland. There had been reports that Exxon, Mobil, Hughes Tool Co. and perhaps others were members of a consortium negotiating with Peiping.
JUNE 6 - Australian Overseas Trade Minister Jim Cairns, a crusader against nuclear tests, told the U.S. National Press Club that Chou En-lai told him Peiping nuclear tests were a protection against the superpowers.
"Class factors" determine marriage on the Chinese mainland, the Central Daily News reported in Taipei. The paper said approval of party cadres is required.
Chou En-lai said Japan would gain more in opening commercial flights to the Chinese mainland than in trying to retain service to Taiwan. He met with Hideji Kawasaki of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party.
Thai Premier Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said his government's invitation to a Chinese Communist table tennis team to play goodwill matches in Bangkok had no diplomatic significance.
North Vietnamese party and government leaders visiting Peiping were received by Mao Tse-tung in his Peiping study, NCNA said.
JUNE 7 - Visiting Chinese Communist "foreign minister" Chi Peng-fei and British Foreign Secretary Alex Douglas-Home began confidential discussions in London.
The rift between Moscow and Peiping is quieter but deeper than ever, the American State Department's ranking expert on Asian affairs said. "But it is less explosive," added Marshal Green, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
JUNE 8 - British Prime Minister Edward Heath accepted an invitation to visit Peiping from visiting Chi Peng-fei, Chinese Communist "foreign minister." It would be the first visit of a British prime minister to the mainland since the Communists came to power in 1949.
Hanoi and the Chinese Communists signed agreement on 1974 aid to rehabilitate North Vietnam's economy and strengthen its defenses.
An estimated 3,000 American travelers have visited the Chinese mainland in the two years since early 1971. The number of Chinese Communist visitors to the U.S. has been small. Only four groups visited the United States in 1972, the U.S. government said.
The Philippines is "seriously considering" a proposal to avail itself of Chinese Communist ships for transporting foreign trade shipments, the economic daily Business Day reported.
Tentative plans are being explored for opening a new railway line between Kwai Chung and Fanling to provide a fast goods service from the Chinese mainland to Hongkong's container port.
A group of U.S. Senators and Representatives will leave June 30 for a two-week visit to the Chinese mainland.
An American writer, Vincent Sheean, and his wife left for home at the end of their Chinese mainland visit, NCNA reported. They toured Peiping, Wuhan, Shanghai and Canton.
An exhibition of archaeological treasures excavated on the Chinese mainland was opened in Tokyo in the presence of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Chinese Communist "ambassador" Chen Chu.
JUNE 9 - Japan is trying to play Moscow and Peiping against each other to her own profit, but developments show it is not an easy job. The British weekly Economist said that largely because of "a systematic slant in the Japanese press," Japan appears to be leaning toward Peiping.
The Flying Tiger Line, one of the world's largest air cargo carriers, will not fly to the Chinese mainland in the near future, Wayne Hoffman, a senior official of FTL, said in Hongkong.
JUNE 10 - A Chinese Communist military officer attended the graduation parade at India's National Defense Academy for the first time in 15 years.
Trade union congresses were held in three more Chinese mainland provinces. This represents another step toward reconstruction of the "all-(Red) China federation of trade unions" shattered during the "cultural revolution."
Chinese Communist "foreign minister" Chi Peng-fei flew from London to Paris after wide-ranging talks with top British ministers. Peiping showed interest in possible purchase of three Concordes.
Chinese mainland agriculture is in a critical period. Floods and drought still threaten many areas at sowing time.
JUNE 11 - At least 150 refugees reached Hongkong from the Chinese mainland in the first nine days of June. They ranged in age from 20 to 25 and all were members of "people's communes" in Kwangtung province.
The Philippines is "still conducting an indepth study" on the question of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communists, Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo said.
Thousands of Chinese Communist agents trained in espionage have been smuggled into Indonesia to undermine President Suharto's government, Attorney General Ali said. He said some 15,000 Chinese Communists had entered Indonesia from Hongkong, Malaysia and the Philippines by means of forged passports and documents.
The confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Peiping regime will continue, an American authority on Asian affairs predicted in Taipei. Dr. Harold C. Hinton, professor of political science at George Washington University in Washington D.C., said the Russians were not likely to carry out an armed attack against the Chinese Communists because of the considerable damage they would suffer. However, because of cultural, racial and historical differences, the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communists are basically irreconcilable, he said.
Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka said his government was "earnest" in trying to conclude a commercial air agreement with Peiping.
Canadian and Peiping representatives signed an air agreement permitting Canadian Pacific Air Ways to operate between Canada, Shanghai, and Peiping and for a Chinese Communist carrier to operate between the Chinese mainland, Vancouver and Ottawa.
NCNA attacked the preparatory talks in Helsinki on a European security conference. It said the talks were held "against the background of intensified contention between the Soviet Union and the U.S. for Europe." "Under the signboard of the 'European collective security system,' the Soviet Union is trying hard to consolidate its hegemony in Eastern Europe, extend its sphere of influence to Western Europe and squeeze out U.S. influence there," the report said. "The U.S. on its part is trying to adjust its overall relationship with Europe, ease its contradictions with Western Europe and consolidate its position there, and together with Western Europe, contend with the Soviet Union for Eastern Europe."
JUNE 12 - Chinese Communist "foreign minister" Chi Peng-fei entered two days of political and economic talks with French leaders by expressing concern to Prime Minister Pierre Messmer over the Soviet Union's policy of detente with the West.
Peiping is planning to improve its airports to be able to handle any future traffic expansion. This was disclosed by Hongkong's deputy director of civil aviation, Brian Keep, who ended a 17-day visit to the Chinese mainland.
The inaugural meeting of the newly formed "U.S.-(Red) China trade council" was reported to have taken place in Washington May 31. It was attended by leaders of U.S. business and industry, government officials and senior members of the Peiping liaison office.
Leaders of Peiping and Hanoi did not see eye-to-eye on some key issues during a visit to Peiping by a top level delegation of North Vietnam. A communique issued after the delegation returned to Hanoi reflected compromise on such issues as the gravity of the present situation in Vietnam, the role of the United States and present and future priorities.
JUNE 13 - Britain reached agreement with the Chinese Communists allowing British Overseas Airways Corporation to fly to Peiping by way of Hongkong. British sources said service could be started by the end of the year.
Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. (Toshiba) announced a US$700,000 order from Peiping for television broadcast relay vehicles. Each will be equipped with three color TV cameras and a portable camera.
North China, an important wheat-growing area faced by the threat of drought for the second year running, made major efforts to increase water supplies last winter, NCNA said. The agency said 231,000 wells were sunk from October to April in 14 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. However, the reserve is getting smaller. Wells, which are the main source of water, are providing less because dry weather has caused the water table to sink.
Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira said Peiping and Tokyo were negotiating a cultural exchange treaty. He said Peiping "desires to send students to Japan to study the Japanese language."
A new underground organization is stepping up anti-Maoist activity in Kwangtung, according to Hongkong sources. Known as the Anti-Banishment-of-Youth Action Group, the underground organization is especially active in Huiyang, Paoan and Huitung counties in southeastern Kwangtung.
Thousands of Communist forces - including Chinese Communists - are massing along the Thai-Laotian border, CNA reported from Chiang Mai. Communist terrorists have increased their activities in the northern provinces. Government officials and isolated villages are the main targets.
JUNE 14 - Chinese Communist "foreign minister" Chi Peng-fei arrived in Teheran from Paris for a three-day visit.
BOAC will not have any traffic rights from Hongkong in flying passengers to Peiping, according to the air agreement initiated in Peiping. This was a disappointment to foreign residents in Peiping who make periodic holiday and shopping trips to Hongkong.
Chinese Communists released a Royal Hongkong Air Force helicopter and its crew after the chopper was forced down by a violent storm. They did not release a shark-mauled young freedom swimmer who was being airlifted to a hospital by the helicopter.
Over 800,000 young intellectuals have died in the last 10 years in the countryside where they were exiled, the Central News Agency reported from Hongkong. The 800,000 represented 8 per cent of the 10 million youths banished to the countryside for "re-education" since 1963. Most died in Manchuria and Northwestern China.
The apparent stability on the Chinese mainland is only temporary and hides a crisis in the background. This was the main conclusion at a Taipei seminar sponsored by the Institute of International Relations. The power struggle on the mainland has spread from the Communist Party to the general public. The regime's officials have been changed many times and many of those purged have been reinstated. Youths who wanted to see a new revolution to remake society will be the main problem for Mao's regime, the seminar agreed.
Movie actress Shirley MacLaine, just back from a six-week visit to the Chinese mainland, said she didn't think she could live there for long. She said that "philosophically, educationally, culturally, politically, spiritually - everything comes from Mao. Nobody reads or thinks anything else."
JUNE 15 - Trade between the United States and the Chinese Communists could exceed US$500 million in the first year of direct commerce, the president of May Lee Industries, Dr. David Buxbaum, estimated in New York. His is the only American company set up with the specific aim of trading with the Chinese Communists. It was the first U.S. company asked to take part in the Canton Fair and acts on behalf of 30 American firms.
A former member of the Canadian parliament, Robert Thomson, who visited the Chinese mainland, said in Vancouver that Mao Tse-tung had lost prestige among the Chinese Communists and has become a man of the past.
Captured refugees are being paraded through communes in Kwangtung province with large signs around their necks telling of their "crimes," Hongkong reports said. In Punyu county in the Pearl River estuary, three recaptured freedom swimmers were forced to parade through several villages. Their hands were tied behind their backs and large placards around their necks read: "Guilty of visiting relatives illegally."