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...orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication that China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is in danger of choking on its own absurdities...
Dictates & Disciplines. "Do you have no feelings at all?" Chou demanded of three rival groups of Red Guards that he had summoned to the Great Hall in order to get them to merge. "Your methods of struggle against your leaders not only make it impossible for them to work but also for them to remain healthy." Chou was incensed at the frequent Red Guard abuses of government and party officials, who have been the prime targets for China's rebellious youth since the Maoist "revolution" began last year...
...that even Peking itself is not entirely subjugated (fully ten of the city's districts are unsafe for Maoism). The rest of the capital, indeed much of the country, remains in chaos. Although many Red Guards last week were leaving for home and school as ordered by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, Feb. 17), there were many more who found their first taste of power too heady to listen to Chou's orders. Since the Cultural Revolution began, complained the New China News Agency, "wrong tendencies have emerged in the revolutionary ranks"-specifically because, once they have taken...
...Premier Chou En-lai also ordered the Guards to slack off in their humiliations of purged party officials, many of whom have been forced to wear dunce caps while being dragged through city streets...
...Said Chou: "Not all Red Guard activities are necessarily just and proper." He ought to know. He himself was once the victim of wall poster slander...