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...What is wrong with these young people? If young men their age weren't dying in Asia, these college boys' children and grandchildren might end up spending their time conducting self-criticism sessions in a commune rather than dreaming up ways to beat the draft. I had a privileged education-Choate '53 and Yale '57, but the greatest privilege I've had was 3½ years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. I'll serve again if need...
That gift of choice villa sites on the Adriatic to a handful of movie stars also raised some orthodox eyebrows. "Is it possible that deputies in a commune donate land free to a certain diva when peasants must pay for their water and electricity?" asked Ekonomska Politika. "When the town of Budva gives Sophia Loren a piece of land," it replied, "Loren will shed on Budva part of her world fame, which has an astronomical price. Hotels around her villa will overnight rocket in value, as will the whole town...
Meanwhile, Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists, who caustically refused to attend the Moscow Congress, were busy with other things. Not only did a Chinese delegation gather huzzas in Pakistan, but Peking last week celebrated the 95th anniversary of the Paris Commune. The ceremony came replete with a 400-item exhibition including a Communard sword, a badge reading "Republique des Communes," and a Red Flag editorial that lambasted Russia for "embarking on the path of restoring capitalism...
...last year and this year, there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country has no definite plans at all. Why are we unable to buy things...
...local woman commune member, Yeh Hsiang-shu (poor peasant), cut off and stole from this production group seven heads of white cabbage totaling 6 chin. Yeh, when forced to speak, had to admit that her husband Chou Hsing-jung had also stolen some vegetables. The production group seized Chou also, then took man and wife, with hands tied, and hung them by the wrists from the basketball goal for ten minutes. Then Platoon Commander Yang Ju-hsing announced two conditions: "First, they must give us back 3,000 catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give...