Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south, major fighting has been reported in Szechwan, Honan and Kwangsi provinces, and travelers returning from the Canton Trade Fair-which ended last week-say that there is fear of an invasion of the city by armies of dissident Red Guards. In Fukien, where there has been trouble in the past, five Peking officials sent to investigate new violence were kidnaped by local Red Guards. Newspapers in Anhwei report that Central Committee directives are being derided and that Mao supporters are under open attack. In Shantung, according to Peking radio, "people claiming to be revolutionaries" are stirring up "trouble...
...much of the government's day-to-day business and is by far the most visible man in the Hanoi hierarchy. The son of a mandarin who was the private secretary to Emperor Duy Tan, Dong became a nationalist during his student days, and in 1925 went to Canton and joined Ho, who was already training Communist cadres for revolution in Viet Nam. They have been together ever since. Dong headed Ho's delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference, was made Premier in 1955. It was Dong, speaking before North Viet Nam's 366-man National Assembly...
...five. Soldiers are in the schools, in many state ministries, in the factories and even in the fields. In some instances they are actually on production lines, or running railroads; in others, they are busy restoring law and order and knocking heads together. Last week, as the semiannual Canton trade fair opened a month late, heavily armed soldiers patrolled the fair site with fixed bayonets-the first time in the fair's eleven-year history that such protection has been felt necessary. "Now we must rely on the army," Defense Minister Lin Piao said recently, "and it must...
...been at Harvard since he received his Ph.D. here in 1958, with the exception of a year (1960-61) at Yale as an assistant professor. Vogel has written Japan's New Middle Class (1963) and a soon-to-be-published book, Canton under Communism. With N. W. Bell, he edited A Modern Introductory to the Family...
...such areas, chaos still reigns. Several provinces have reported fighting between Maoists and anti-Maoists, and peasants are said to be massing for anti-Mao drives. The army is trying to restore order in such major cities as Canton, and thus is emerging as a more important force than the Red Guards, who often fight each other. Radio broadcasts have told of rallies at which the pronouncement and execution of death sentences on ten anti-Maoists were cheered by huge crowds; proceedings were carried on television as a warning to Mao's enemies...