Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Respected and honorable Chairman Mao: How are you? We have come to Peking to inform you of the way the anti-Lin and anti-Confucius campaign is going on in our province...
...letter to Mao Tse-tung, plastered last week to a wall in downtown Peking by a number of workers who had journeyed from Hunan province. The letter complained of foot dragging in the five-month-old campaign to promote revolutionary fervor whose symbolic targets are 1) the ancient philosopher Confucius and 2) Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly died in a mysterious plane crash in September 1971. The open letter and other hand-printed posters appearing on walls throughout the country are the latest indications of an intensified drive against moderate Chinese officials...
There has been other evidence that the radical-moderate feud has heated up. Over the past two weeks, posters have appeared on walls within view of the municipal office building accusing "Official XX" of "keeping the lid" on the anti-Confucius campaign. The target is believed to be Peking's top official, Wu Teh, a moderate and a supporter of Premier Chou Enlai. However, the moderates struck back with posters defending "Official XX." They denounced the authors of the earlier posters as "bad elements" who "indulge in fabrication, lies and calumny...
...disputed claim of $3.8 million arising from the bankruptcy of Transogram Co., a toy company that Motsey once headed. But it did seem the worst was over. Copeland will now have more time for his latest venture, the Comedy Center, Inc. It sells jokes to speechmakers and newspapers. Sample: "Confucius say: Naked student who runs into naked coed having lucky streak." The talent behind the firm is Bob Orben, who is also a gagwriter for Vice President Gerald Ford...
...alligators as well as other species unique to its island-continent. In all the other national exhibits-those of West Germany (featuring a movie of the ruined Rhine), the Philippines, Iran, Canada, Nationalist China (with a spectacular cinema, a display of art objects and performers celebrating such occasions as Confucius' birthday) and South Korea, which has indoor and outdoor spicy-food restaurants-the environmental theme is intelligently and honestly presented...