Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deng Xiaoping and made his mark, after the downfall of the Gang of Four, by reorganizing the province of Sichuan. Now, as Premier, he operates the governing machinery and, by all reports, does it well. He too must be considered one of the Old Guard, a warrior, having fought both Japanese and Nationalists with valor. His ordeal in the Cultural Revolution lasted only four years: 1967-1971. He was dragged from his home in Canton, paraded through the streets with the ritual dunce cap of "capitalist roaders," then rusticated...
...journey through China today is a journey through paradox. But no one can understand the paradoxes unless one keeps in mind the history behind them. The men who dominate China were, long ago, students and idealists. They became cruel as they fought and, as they governed, the logic of Communism drove them to further cruelty ?until they learned that absolute cruelty has its limits in absolute madness. What they are doing now is trying to untangle their old dreams from the madness those dreams begot...
...greatest name; he went on into Peking and became God ? but also, with almost no doubt, insane. Jiang Qing, a bitch killer and one of the great dragon ladies of Chinese history, now languishes under life sentence in jail. Peng Dehuai, a superlative military leader who had fought side by side with Mao for 20 years, went on to command the front against the Americans in the Korean War and later was named Minister of Defense. But he became the first openly to criticize Mao, and that cost him dearly. He was left to die of cancer...
...always it must be remembered that the old zealots of this regime are married to the thought of unending revolution and still seek to bring Taiwan-back under their flag before they pass on. We have fought one war directly with the Chinese (in Korea) and another by proxy (in Viet Nam); a third confrontation should be avoided at all costs...
...sweep of terror, China under the Cultural Revolution was the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Thugs, Red Guard bands and idealists fought in the cities, all rivaling one another to show loyalty to Mao Thought. Stories from the interior convey the sweep of the violence. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, the handsome old government palace was blown to bits by Red Guards; in its place they erected a new hall filled only with portraits of Mao. In Chongqing, workers fought each other with machine guns, artillery, armored cars and tanks. In Harbin, the factions used air planes to bomb each other...