Word: guarded
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Revolutions have a way of escaping their instigators, and there were signs last week that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose Red Guards have convulsed China for four months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000,000 of the Red Guard youth who have been breaking windows and heads, renaming streets and chanting the lit any of Mao Tse-tung's narrow road to Socialist salvation. Over 100,000 of the Guards had the sniffles, or something more serious, from wearing only Mao-think...
...Characters. Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one hand and President Liu Shao-chi and Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping on the other. The fissures apparently have regional roots. So long as the Red Guard rampages affected only national interests or the artifacts of the past, no one much cared. But when local property and the jobs of local party functionaries were threatened, resistance rose...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...
While a special committee was preparing to study the demands, young Communist students staged two days of mild downtown demonstrations. Then full-scale street riots suddenly erupted on Dec. 3. Chanting "Kill the Portuguese devils!", some 3,000 Red Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though...
...lover, paused only briefly before Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre. But he could not get enough answers when shown the fuselage of the British-French supersonic transport, Concorde, or a frog's heart preserved-alive-in a Grenoble laboratory. Whether reviewing an honor guard of skiing policemen in the Alps or placing a paternal arm around a hesitant American correspondent, Kosygin, 62, was always a relaxed guest. "If we are all together, there will be no more wars," he shouted to a mob of delighted workers at a factory near Lyon. When a Grenoble judge...