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Four Chinese peasants in Kweiyang Commune 18 miles north of Hong Kong were condemned to a total of 50 years of "labor reform" last week for showing disrespect for Chairman Mao Tsetung. In fact, a three-year-old boy, some roosting hens and a clutch of cockroaches were responsible for three of the crimes. No matter, the men were convicted, and their sentences were announced by the commune chairman, a senior army officer. One 30-year-old farmer drew ten years of "labor reform," which means hard labor, for permitting his three-year-old son to tear up a picture...
...turned out to give a rousing send-off to 60,000 middle-school graduates, all of them teen-agers bound for China's remoter regions. In Wuhan, a similar rally was staged to bid farewell to 10,000 Red Guards from 150 local schools. In Kweiyang, more than 20,000 students have set out for the mountains and paddylands. Since September, the Peking government has shipped more than 2,000,000 university and high school students, including thousands of young guardsmen, to the boondocks. Hundreds of thousands more of the nation's intellectual elite are scheduled to follow...
Drab Living. The six revolutionary universities are at Peking, Nanking, Sian, Canton, Hankow and Kweiyang. Foremost among them is the North China Revolutionary University, located in an army barracks in Peking's western suburb. Last week I talked to a recent graduate who had just made his escape into Hong Kong...
...Year was greeted according to immemorial custom. Honanese hoisted red lanterns on 50-foot poles to scare away a ten-headed bird of evil. Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival. In Yunnan no one would think of gambling (because if you gamble on New Year's you will gamble all year long); children gathered odd-shaped stones to represent bad luck, cast them into kitchen ovens to be purged...
From headquarters in Kunming, you beat your way 400 miles to shabby, weather-worn Kweiyang and thence to field headquarters, and you've come only half the way. There American Brigadier General Frederick Boye and Chinese General Tang En Po jointly deploy and dispose of Chinese and American personnel in combat. Their remote control runs another 400 miles to the quiet, fluid string of foxholes that is the front, inhabited by hungry Chinese infantrymen and grimy, filthy Americans...