PEKING, Feb. 27, 1972 (UPI) - One of Mao Tse-tung's greatest concerns about Chinese communism is the emergence of an elite leadership class that will depart from the course he has set for China.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 27, 1972 (UPI) - President Nixon, embracing a mutual goal of normalized relations with China, pledged Sunday to reduce military forces on Taiwan "as the tension in the area diminished" and ultimately to withdraw entirely from the Nationalist stronghold.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 28, 1972 (UPI) -- Pat Nixon spent most of her week in China just the way she had wished -- mingling with the people and seeing the sights.

CANTON, Aug. 30, 1972 (UPI) -- Chun Yun Wei's workday begins at 7 a.m. with clinics for earaches and other minor ailments and usually ends with night classes to teach his fellow farm workers hygiene and birth control methods.

PEKING, Sept. 10, 1972 (UPI) - Premier Chou En-lai is taking China through a diplomatic revolution that may well shape China's future and the make-up of its leadership for years to come - even after Chou and Chairman Mao Tse-tung have passed from the scene.

CANTON, Sept. 15, 1972 (UPI) -- Dawn comes up like thunder over South China with a band of vivid orange along the horizon, slowly revealing the twisted, wooded hills and the flooded paddies of rice.