ISSUE DATE: February 21, 1972; Vol LXXIX, No 8

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE CHINA NIXON WILL SEE: (SPECIAL REPORT) Next week the nation's TV screens will offer Americans a historic and paradoxical sight: the President of the United States moving in state through the People's Republic of China. For more than twenty years, most Americans viewed China as an unalloyed tyranny and an implacable foe. Then, with the bounce of a Ping Pong ball, Peking signaled its desire for better relations with the U.S., and scores of Americans came flocking home from China with wondrous tales of an egalitarian utopia without slums, crime or VD.

Both the old contempt and the new admiration for China rested on dangerous oversimplifications. Accordingly, when Mr. Nixon announced his trip last July, Newsweek immediately began to plan the Special Report on China, illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, that appears in this issue. From interviews with scholars, refugees and nearly 100 recent visitors, Newsweek correspondents, writers and researchers directed by Senior Editor Edward Klein prepared this 22-page portrait of the China that President Nixon will see.

The picture that emerges is of a land of endless contrast and contradiction. Arriving at a realistic appraisal of this complex and alien society will be a monumental task for both Mr. Nixon and the country -- and one of monumental importance as well. (Newsweek cover photo by Harry Redl -- Black Star.)

THE HOAX AND THE HOAXED: The great Howard Hughes fiasco careened toward its denouement last week in typically antic style. Life magazine, which had trumpeted its acquisition of the Hughes "memoirs" just two months ago, blushingly branded Clifford Irving's manuscript a "hoax" -- and Life's sister magazine, Time, unblushingly trumpeted its plans to tell how Irving had flummoxed Life and the McGraw-Hill Book Co. Some of the Irving manuscript's best morsels were traced to an early version of another book about Hughes by his onetime lieutenant Noah Dietrich. Meanwhile two grand juries were still digging into the Irving case. With files from Tom Mathews in New York and Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles, General Editor Richard Boeth writes the latest installment of the tall story. On page 113, Associate Editor Peter Gwynne explores the expertise of the handwriting specialists who originally vouched for the "Hughes" documentation -- and who changed their minds last week.

TOPSY-TURVY IN SAPPORO: There was a distinct Alice in Wonderland quality to the Winter Olympics at Sapporo, Japan, last week. A poorly rated U.S. team won quite a few victories. The Swedes and Russians fought, and the Swiss ran away with the slalom. Pete Axthelm writes the story.

INDEX:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
President Nixon and his vietnam critics.
Foreign policy: "the watershed year".
Mansfield's blast at Senate absenteeism.
The Howard Hughes hoax -- with excerpts from the "autobiography".
How will the insurgents do in New Hampshire's primary?.
SPECIAL REPORT:
The China Mr. Nixon will see (the cover) -- with eight pages of color photos.
What it means to be Chinese.
The American view of China: myth and misunderstanding.
Maoism: a method to the "madness".
Growing up in Communist China.
Life under Mao: hard work, little play.
What will come of the summit?.
After Mao: can the revolution continue?.
INTERNATIONAL:
Ulster: is civil war avoidable?.
Blackout in Britain: the coal strike.
Bangladesh: the Bihari problem.
Selling escapes from East Germany.
SPORTS: The topsy-turvy Olympics: with two pages of color photographs.
MEDICINE: An artificial brain for stroke victims?.
THE CITIES: How to talk black.
EDUCATION: Burying the "political recess"; New York State's controversial Fleischmann Commission.
RELIGION: Toward Catholic membership in the National Council of Churches; Controversial preacher Cecil Williams.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
The airlines -- flying high.
The U.S's trade-and-money package deal.
Ecology: the Clairton coke works battle.
Is Glenn W. Turner really unstoppable?.
Counting BTU's to conserve energy.
Politics: Mr. Nixon vs. the labor unions.
Setting US. economic goals for 1990.
THE MEDIA: Covering the Peking trip: it's TV 3 to 1; A talk with the whimsical Dr. Seuss.
SCIENCE AND SPACE:
Handwriting experts and the forger.
The U.S.-Soviet research agreement.
Bringing experts and students together through tape recordings.
THE COLUMNISTS:
George W. Ball.
Clam Morgello.
Henry C. Wallich.
Stewart Alsop.

THE ARTS:
THEATER:
Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish".
Joyce Carol Oates at the Cubiculo.
MUSIC : Sarah Caldwells triumphant "Trojans".
BOOKS:
"Calcutta," by Geoffrey Moorhouse.
Alan Levy's "Rowboat to Prague".
"Aretino's Dialogues" in English.
Bill Mauldin's "The Brass Ring".
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