RED CHINA WHO NEEDS PANTS ? PEKING LAST WEEK PUBLICLY ADMITTED THAT 
RED CHINA WILL NOT HAVE ITS LONGPROMISED NUCLEAR BOMB FOR A 
LONG TIME TO COME . FOREIGN MINISTER MARSHAL CHEN YI CONCEDED 
THAT ECONOMIC TROUBLES AND THE QUARREL WITH THE RUSSIANS (WHO WITHDREW 
THEIR TECHNICIANS AND BROKE AN ATOMIC-AID TREATY) HAVE SERIOUSLY DELAYED PEKING'S 
ATOMIC PROGRAM . IT WOULD BE " SEVERAL YEARS, " CHEN 
TOLD VISITING JAPANESE CORRESPONDENTS, BEFORE THE REGIME COULD EVEN TEST A 
CRUDE ATOM BOMB . BUT CHINA IS FAR FROM GIVING UP 
ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS . SOME TIME AGO, KHRUSHCHEV WARNED THAT ANY 
COUNTRY TRYING TO BUILD A BOMB WITHOUT ADEQUATE RESOURCES MIGHT LOSE 
ITS PANTS . NEVERTHELESS, SAID CHEN, SOUNDING LIKE AN ECHO OF 
CHARLES DE GAULLE, " AT THE RISK OF LOSING OUR PANTS, 
WE ARE DETERMINED TO GO AHEAD AND BUILD OUR OWN ATOMIC 
BOMBS . OTHERWISE WE WILL END UP AS A SECOND- OR 
THIRD-CLASS NATION . 