Chairman Mao, I Presume
May, 1972
"East is East and West is West and never the Twain shall meet." We don't recall who said it--Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Stanley Myron Handelman--but whoever did was proved dead wrong when the U. S. and China recently concluded the first stage of their stunning rapprochement. By now the world has been surfeited with TV and journalistic coverage of the historic event, but how much of it was truth and how much mere window dressing? After all, haven't we learned from the Pentagon papers,...
