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Famine in Honan Province...
...marks on my thinking," writes White, "the Honan famine remains most indelible." It happened in the winter...
...miles south of Peking. Indeed, travelers returning from the Paoting area reported that armed rebels supporting Chiang Ch'ing's leftists had raped women, robbed banks, raided ammunition dumps, blown up factories, hijacked military vehicles and disrupted rail traffic. According to other reports, disturbances have also occurred in Hupei, Honan and Shansi provinces as well as in Fukien, where 12,000 troops had to be sent to quell followers of the Gang of Four, who were "disturbing the army" and "sabotaging the party's unified leadership." Radio broadcasts have also reported that "criminal gangs are threatening public order" in Chekiang...
...PEASANT. A worker at the Ma Chang Commune in Honan will rise at dawn, come rain or shine. Before a breakfast of corn dumpling soup and tea, he will spend two hours plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat...
...WORKER. To a factory worker in Detroit or even Moscow, the life of his counterpart in Shanghai or Peking would appear uncomfortably lackluster. But as the peasant in Honan sees it, his comrade assigned to an engine plant or machine shop is blessed with unimaginable luxury. Not only are wages higher than on the farms, but there are the attractions of city life -cinemas, stores, parks, athletic events -that provide some brightness to China's overall blue-gray drabness...