Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roaring off to sedate Victorian Melbourne, Johnson found half a million people choking the streets. At one point, the President paused to review an honor guard of 57 canine greeters assembled by the Victoria Beagle Society and lifted one-not by the ears-onto the limousine's bubble-top. At another stop, Johnson stepped out for some handshaking, saw a young man with a placard reading L.B.J.-BLOODFINGER. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" chided the President. The boy put down his sign...
...back in Brasilia, and since all but three of them were members of M.D.B., the vote went overwhelmingly against the government. With that, the Deputies began their preparations for a siege, which soon took on the overtones of a carnival. They set up cots, organized a "resistance command" to guard the doors, considered registering a protest with the U.N., even started tinkering with a patriotic hymn...
...writing poetry about love rather than revolution and grumbling about the manual jobs they had to take after graduation from college. He knew of Party officials throughout the country who were unhappy and listless in their jobs because of the monopoly on the higher Party positions held by "Old Guard" communists -- those who had been with the Party for 30 and 40 years. Mao also knew that once he died the ambitious Old Guard members under him would clash in a long and devisive fight for the succession...
...Guard movement merged naturally with Mao's purge of undesirable Party members. Mao had been quietly weeding persons out for several months and the Red Guards continued the purge through embarrassment and sometimes direct physical assault on selected men at the lower Party levels. Simultaneously, their patron and hero confronted his last problem -- who was to succeed...
...might have been expected that the Red Guards would get out of hand this summer. During past campaigns as in this one, Chinese citizens have often exceeded Party directives for fear of being left behind. Also, Tuesday's huge Red Guard rally in Peking indicated that Mao and Lin may have several additional errands for the Guards to do. But the Party has already ordered some Red Guards to help harvest the crops, and with an anticipated drop in grain production the Party may send many more out to harvest every last kernel...