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Working mainly with the more numerous Meo, Yao, Lisu, Lahu and Akha tribesmen, the border patrol has built two major "development centers" and three more are under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag...
...there is evidence of dissatisfaction at the top and bottom of the army. Among the generals, those having a guerrilla mentality conflict with the professionals, who argue that to obtain the supplies needed by a modern army, China must cooperate closely with the Soviet Union. Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, leading spokesman for the professionals, was dismissed from his post in 1959, but remains a member...
...factional disputes within the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Khrushchev was accused of openly voicing support for "antiparty elements" in China. Western experts believe the Chinese "elements" Khrushchev was supporting were military men who opposed the growing Sino-Soviet split, most likely former Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai and his Deputy, Huang Ke-cheng. Khrushchev is additionally charged with trying to sell Peking on a "two Chinas" plan as a means of settling Mao's quarrel with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Among the reasons widely cited for the Sino-Soviet split is the case of Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's former Minister of Defense. As reported by Sinologist David Charles in the China Quarterly of London, the story of the marshal's fall from grace is considered generally plausible by Western experts, if perhaps questionable in some details...
...been hurried along by unrest in the Red army. The peasant rank and file was naturally bitter at the suffering of its families in the communes. Red army officers resent the use of their men as a labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together with fellow soldiers." Even generals undergo this treatment...