Mao's limo
Carl Remick
carlremick at hotmail.com
Thu May 16 09:59:04 PDT 2002
>From: Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com>
>
>Collector Rolls Out Mao's Palace on Wheels
>Thu May 16, 7:55 AM ET
>
>The man who led the Long March across China ordered
>the 10-meter (33-foot) limo in the early 1970s to show
>his confidence in China's fledgling auto industry but
>died in 1976 before he could use it, the official
>Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
>
>"We must produce our own longest limousine," it quoted
>the founder of Communist China, renowned for his
>excesses in later life, as saying.
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18)
Carl
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