Word: guarded
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Youth on His Side. Provincial and local party headquarters have, in fact, been a major target for Red Guard fury. Apparently Mao wanted to root out a lack of zeal at the local party level. But, according to reports from China, Mao had an even more compelling reason to call the Guards: he was in trouble...
Conflicting Signs. A trademark of the Red Guards has become the "big-character" wall posters, which are old newspapers on which Guards proclaim new attacks on "revisionists," denounce party members for un-Mao-like behavior, and record news of Guard activities in other cities...
...past few days, the posters have become symptomatic of the chaos in China's cities. Some criticize the Red Guards. Others report clashes of Guards with workers and peasants. Some even demanded that Mao, who so far has let Lin do the talking at Red Guard rallies, take a greater role in the swirling events...
Uncle Chou. Guard members are drawn almost exclusively from families of party members, workers, peasants or soldiers. So far, the Guard units seem to take orders only from party headquarters in Peking, but a relationship appears to have developed between the Guards and the army. A number of local army commanders have been appointed "instructors" of newly organized Red Guard corps...
...Wagon Guard. Vorster has not always been so acclaimed. The 13th of 14 children of a wealthy Afrikaner farmer, he studied law at Stellenbosch University, turned up in 1941 as a 25-year-old "general" in South Africa's pro-Nazi underground, the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Guard). Spouting his admiration for Hitler and contempt for democracy, he was arrested as a Nazi agent in 1942, spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first...