Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...litany of Liu's sins was reeled off at a meeting of the party's Central Committee late in October. Its expulsion of Liu was the highest-level purge in more than two years of merciless harassment of officials. When Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Red Guards, recruited mainly from the closed-down schools and egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into...
Only Tried and True. In celebrating National Day last Oct. 1, the Mao leadership triumphantly declared "all-round victory" for the Cultural Revolution. The stage was thus set for the meeting of the Central Committee, at which Mao and his No. 2 man, Vice Chair-man Lin Piao, were reported to have made important speeches. The most immediate problem, according to the committee communique, is the job of "party consolidation and party building." The faithful Maoist press warned that this vital task cannot be left only to present party members-who might simply revert to the policies of Liu Shao...
...king-seems to indicate that the Maoists believe they have regained full control of the country. Other, lower-ranking "bourgeois revisionist" leaders may yet be vilified and purged, but as part of a mopping-up operation rather than via the almost ritualistic "naming" of a scapegoat by which the Central Committee completed the official destruction...
...credit question continued. To militant students, the regents' curtailment of the Cleaver course amounted to a politically motivated interference with academic freedom. Uni-versity administrators feared a worse disruption than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small groups, and their organizational meetings degenerated into bickering over goals and tactics. The rebels might have been able to marshal more support if they had faced an unreceptive administration. But Heyns readily agreed to meet with the protesters and expressed...
Pointing out this absurdity is the central goal of The Imaginary Invalid, Argan, the comic hero, insists throughout that he is an invalid and that only his doctors are protecting him from death. He views them as gods, trusts them, believes in them, devotes himself to their well-being...