Word: liu
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China last week became the first Communist nation in history to have a non-Communist President. Long the reviled symbol for everything "bourgeois" in China, President Liu Shao-chi, 70, was expelled from the Communist Party and denounced as a "renegade, traitor and scab" as well as a tool of those familiar Red devils, "imperialism, modern revisionism and the Kuomintang reactionaries." Despite this attack, however, Liu still hangs on as President, a post from which he can legally be removed only by the National People's Congress...
...litany of Liu's sins was reeled off at a meeting of the party's Central Committee late in October. Its expulsion of Liu was the highest-level purge in more than two years of merciless harassment of officials. When Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Red Guards, recruited mainly from the closed-down schools and egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into...
...reported to have made important speeches. The most immediate problem, according to the committee communique, is the job of "party consolidation and party building." The faithful Maoist press warned that this vital task cannot be left only to present party members-who might simply revert to the policies of Liu Shao-chi. Instead, new party members must come from the outside, primarily from "advanced elements among the industrial workers," while only tried and true Maoists among the party members are to be promoted...
Another young woman who displayed a similar lack of filial piety in the early stages of the Cultural Revolution now languishes in jail. Liu Pingping, daughter of President Liu Shao-chi, the man whom the Maoists have denounced as the chief target of the great purge, attacked her "dog father" and mother, but apparently with insufficient force...
Evil Wind. Less political-minded than the other proletarian princesses, but perhaps as prominent, is Lin Toutou, daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind...