Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus in Peking was born the strangest phenomenon of China's current convulsions: the Red Guards. For the name, Mao reached back to another time of troubles-the civil strife of the '20s and '30s. Mao first used the Red Guard label in 1927 to designate the peasant irregulars who fought alongside his troops in such battles as the victorious assault on the walled city of Tingchow. Later, Red Guards accompanied Mao and his men on the Long March in the mid-1930s to the safety of the caves of Yenan...
...blood often belonged to the Red Guards themselves. As the movement spread, so did the violence. Red Guard units from Peking fought with reluctant local party leaders and on several occasions sacked party headquarters. Fights broke out over which units should go to Peking...
Soviet Horror. Further fights erupted as units returned from Peking and started telling their unanointed comrades in the local Red Guard schools how things should be run. Squabbles also broke out between Red Guards and workers and peasants. For the first time in years, troops were brought into major cities to keep order...
...shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded that he was a stranger in a strange land...
...public knows, Earhart and Noonan left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, on the most dangerous leg of their trip-a 2,550-mile leap to tiny (one square mile) Rowland Island, where no plane had ever landed before. Early on July 2, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea for a fix on her position. Too late. Itasca failed...