Chinese swim for Mao

Press, 19 July 1976, Page 10

Chinese swim for Mao

NZPA-Reuter Peking Millions of Chinese splashed across rivers, lakes, and canals yesterday to mark the tenth anniversarv of i Chairman Mao Tse-tung’sl famous swum down the Yangtze River An editorial in the I “People’s Daily" newspaper i and a special issue of stampslauded the chairman's feat in • allegediv swimming 15 kilo-1 metres in 65 minutes at the! age of 72. “Practice shows that so I long as we advance in the: direction indicated by our I great leader. Chairman Mao.! we can break through stormy; waves, steer through treacherous rapids, and press ahead from one victory to another in socialist revolution and 1 construction,” the newspaper said. !n Peking thousands of! cheerful children swam across the Kunming Lake. Red flags flew on the banks | and slogans wished "Long‘ Life to Chairman Mao " Mao’s swim in 1966 aimed at showing the Chinese; people that he was fit and • physical!'.- capable of running the Cultural Revolution I which was beginning at that' tune

Ch«s».—The Soviet world chess: champion. Anatoly Karpov, has suffered a shock 48-move defeat by the Philippine grandmaster. Eugene Torre—only his second! loss in competition since winning; the world title by default last: year. Torre and Karpov, who* was playing white, adjourned: their Sicilian defence game in; what cbeee experts described as’ an apparently hopeless position for Karpov after escaping matci on the forty-first move. I