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...street signs. The avenue in front of the Soviet embassy was renamed Struggle Against Revisionism Street. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Communist mass rallies, became The East Is Red-a favorite Mao slogan. Legation Street, location of most foreign embassies in Peking, was changed to Anti-Imperialist Street. The Guards also ordered a change in the traffic lights: green now means stop and red means go because red is the color of the forward-moving revolution...
...purpose of both the festivities and educational campaign is to get out a big vote-which would amount to a defeat for the Viet Cong, who have denounced the election as an imperialist tour de farce. Last week officials announced that 200,000 names have been added to the electoral rolls, bringing to 4,900,000 the number of South Vietnamese registered to vote; the regime will be delighted if the turnout reaches half that number. This, week the campaigning officially begins, which should raise interest even higher...
...1930s holed up in caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples of the world unite and wage a common struggle, the U.S. imperialist plan for aggression and war can be foiled and the world peace can be safeguarded. The Chinese people are ready to make joint efforts with the French people to this...
Brezhnev did succeed in forging a front of European Communist unity. The pact partners issued periodic blasts throughout the week at the "imperialist" U.S. and even vowed to send "volunteers" to Viet Nam if Ho Chi Minh called for help. All of the pact members had made such offers before, but Ho has yet to take them up. Unity was maintained-on the surface at least-right up to the moment that Brezhnev boarded his Aeroflot Ilyushin-18 to fly back to Moscow. After kissing a row of little girls and accepting a spray of red gladioli, Brezhnev heartily embraced...