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...Purpose Boss. Ultimate goal of the urban commune organizers is the complete fusion of personal and working life. One of the first and most publicized of city communes was at the coal-mining center of Yangchuan in Shansi province. At Yangchuan. according to the Peking People's Daily, "living quarters were readjusted so that cadres, workers and their dependents are housed according to their pit, shifts, sections and teams." That done, "political, cultural and physical-culture activities were organized . . . Each person is a worker-soldier, as well as a student, whose living quarters are workshop, barracks and classroom...
...intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME'S cover (which asked: "Democracy or Dictatorship?"), a supergov-ernment called INRA has grown up-as such prerevolutionary institutions as Congress and the courts wither away -and has set up 485 commune-like farm cooperatives. For how Canada grew rich while Cuba took the path to economic chaos, see THE HEMISPHERE...
...answer has been to throw in youth brigades of Chinese. The Communist Sinkiang Daily claimed that natives "voluntarily gave up their houses and beds to these young people." Last month, in a special meeting, the Sinkiang party organization decided the opposition of "a small number of demobilized servicemen and commune members" has become "the main obstacle to a further strengthening of the people's communes," decreed that, beginning this week, "the stubborn resistance of a few rightist opposition elements who attempt to carry out underground activities should be promptly corrected...
...mechanical man who comes close to realizing his own dictum: "A party member is required to sacrifice his interests to the party unconditionally." Even the public appearances intended to humanize him invariably take on a grim tone. When a small child cut its hands tending potato vines in a commune, Liu's reaction was hard advice: "Do not be scared by a little blood." And when a Communist bureaucrat, whom he was lecturing on the need for working-class experience, observed, "There are still people who regard working in the boiler room as living hell," Liu snapped back...
...groups and splinter groups form with such rapidity that one Congolese leader found that the party he heads had split in two while he was flying from Leopoldville to Brussels last week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without bothering with elections until later. From a Belgian...