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Marxism-Leninism, frequently known as Communism, is the governing force in the Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first...
...after the nation-wide student strikes of spring, 1970, protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the murders at Kent and Jackson State, "there was a lot of disillusionment" among radicals at Harvard, Smith says. Attracted by the alternative lifestyle, many radicals moved to the Quad. Subsequently, radical groups such as the New American Movement (NAM), and events such as the protest against Honeywell (which manufactured anti-personnel weapons) emanated from the Quad...
...Peking's No. 3 man last July. Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief diplomatic troubleshooter, was in Peking on a delicate mission. Teng Ying-ch'ao, 75, the revered widow of Premier Chou Enlai, departed on a good-will visit to Cambodia, and returned to Peking unexpectedly in time to greet Barre...
...these unaccustomed comings and goings in Peking in the past two weeks testified to China's new eagerness to shore up its worldwide diplomatic position. Main reason: the outbreak of war between Viet Nam and Cambodia in December has disrupted what until recently seemed a successful effort by the Chinese to win new friends and influence throughout Southeast Asia at the expense of the Soviets. Peking's inability to prevent the fighting between its Indochinese neighbors has been a serious foreign policy failure, and in some ways its struggle to stay friends with two smaller and mutually hostile...
...Peking's peacemaking efforts have fallen flat. Chou's widow, a Long March veteran and party heroine, was chosen to lead a high-level Chinese delegation to Cambodia because of her pervasive prestige. Her mission was to persuade Premier Pol Pot to negotiate a settlement with Hanoi, but she failed. Though received with due pomp in Phnom-Penh, she was soon whisked out to view the 12th century ruins at Angkor Wat and otherwise kept occupied. After four days she reportedly cut short her visit and went home. Though her hosts may not have been paying much attention...