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...Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected by the purge, tolerate having men about them able to say, "I told...
...Sino experts gathered in Hong Kong who, in the face of Chinese claims, had surmised a great failure and had reported food shortages in the cities while Peking was talking of vast stockpiles (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). And, as many Western observers had already suspected, the highly touted backyard steel furnaces proved a fiasco. None of 3,000,000 tons produced was usable in industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants beyond their endurance. The report made sober reading...
Down to $29.30. In his search, white-maned, gruff Harry Mosser, 65, has the advantage of knowing South Texas as if it were his own backyard. He was born in San Antonio, brought up in Alice, Duval County, worked in his father's bank in Alice, and cotton farmed after leaving the University of Texas. He began buying up oil leases in the '20s all over South
...Cares? Along with loss of incentive went gross mismanagement by party activists in the communes. Dutifully heeding Peking's clamorous cries for concentration on grain and on backyard steel production (since largely abandoned), commune bosses neglected vegetables, cloth and fiber crops. The result was a severe crimp in Red China's once booming export drive (TIME, Aug. 3), and a vegetable shortage so severe that last month China's cities were informed that henceforth they would have to grow all their own food except grain (TIME, July...
...overburdened transportation system, and an anarchic planning system that put untrained workers on industrial machines and knowledgeable technicians in mines or paddies. A classic example of chaos was Peking's 1958 decision to encourage hundreds of thousands of peasants to set up tiny blast furnaces in their backyards to raise steel production. The system proved so uneconomic that it has been abandoned, after millions were spent on backyard plants...