FORTY YEARS AGO

as Indian fascists. He said those who were speaking against the imperialists were those parties and persons who were cooperating with British imperialists during the 1942 Quit India movement.

SUBVERSIVE OPERAS

MAO ZEDONG’S WIDOW, Jiang Qing, and her “gang of four” opposed the modernisation of the Chinese army and tried to force officers and soldiers to sing operas, according to the People’s Daily. Of the long list of crimes committed in the army by Jiang and particularly her “vile adviser’’, Zhang Chunqiao, who was a vice-premier and head of the general political department — or the party’s general political commissioner of the army — were as follows: Fighting against modernisation of the army, sabotaging training, spreading political and ideological “confusion” and “discord,” trying to purge leading cadres to replace them with “men they could rely on”, inciting people to rebel against such top military organs, and undermining the troops’ morale and fighting spirit. An “invention” by the gang “in order to sabotage the army’s political and ideological building was to order the commanders and fighters throughout the army to sing operas.”

LIZ TAYLOR WEDS, AGAIN

ACTRESS ELIZABETH TAYLOR and the former US navy secretary, John Warner, were married at Warner’s home in Middleburg, Virginia. It was the seventh marriage for the 44-year-old Hollywood screen goddess.