Word: foochow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio Foochow charged that opponents of the Cultural Revolution in that coastal city were also launching countermarches and bankrolling batches of workers on trips to Peking, ostensibly to "report conditions" but actually "to sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has become murky, and the main orientation of the struggle is changed, so that in the confusion the dreadful conse quences of this will be blamed on the revolutionary leftists"-meaning the loyal Maoists themselves...
...these programs, Peking now talks reassuringly of a "bumper summer harvest next year." But the fact is that after almost eleven years of Communist rule, China has gained not at all in the desperate race between food production and population increase. "Food is very scarce," wrote a mother in Foochow to her son in Hong Kong. "Were it not for your remittance, we would not taste a piece of meat in a year...