Word: li
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your tremendously interesting cover story of Vice Premier Li Fu-chun [Dec. 1] was one of the most enlightening articles concerning Red China that I have read. It truly gave an inside picture of the never-ending problems that Communism has bestowed upon this underdeveloped country. It should give the people of America the courage to help win this "silent war" before we too are confronted with the evils of Communism upon our free American soil...
...Li Fu-chun backed down. "I am an amateur," he said. "My views are only 'bricks thrown to obtain
...slowly, in the months that followed, Li Fu-chun and his economists discovered the dreadful truth: the statistics were not only inflated but often imaginary. It became obvious that the panicky kanpus had simply given whatever figures they thought the party line demanded...
...Li Fu-chun lamely explained that the national economy developed from "imbalance to balance and then again to imbalance," but always advanced "uninterruptedly in these wavelike movements." It sounded suspiciously like the capitalist theory of business cycles...
...disengagement from catastrophe. Since it was now obvious that the planners had been right and the sloganeers wrong, reason would suggest that the sloganeers should suffer. But the Communist solution was to purge the most outspoken of the planners; then the party could majestically change course. Last April Li Fu-chun thundered: "Not merely has agriculture been neglected to promote heavy industry, but there has also been a waste of men, money and materials. There has been inefficient planning...