Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They admire consistency, even when it comes in a conservative wrapping such as that of William F. Buckley Jr. or Everett McKinley Dirksen (a sort of "camp" hero to the young for his hypersincere LP, Gallant Men). They deride extremists of all stripes-from Alabama's Wallaces to Mao Tse-tung. Whom would they nominate for President? The latest survey shows Bobby Kennedy and Mark Hatfield trailing Snoopy...
What the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution need these days is a stoutly enforced Post No Bills ordinance in Peking...
...Characters. Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one hand and President Liu Shao-chi and Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping on the other. The fissures apparently have regional roots. So long as the Red Guard rampages affected only national interests or the artifacts of the past, no one much cared. But when local property and the jobs of local party functionaries were threatened, resistance rose...
Sharp and bloody clashes between anti-Mao army units and pro-Mao Red Guards have been confirmed in half a dozen provinces. While pro-Mao Red Guards continue to flood Peking with "big character" posters denouncing Liu and Teng, some anti-Lin posters have mysteriously begun appearing. One version of the struggle has it that Lin in fact wants all the Red Guards out of Peking except the ones he can count on; he has urged the latter, privately, to stick around. The indisputable fact is that, for all the railings of the Guards against them, both Liu and Teng...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...