Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heavenly Peace, scene of Red China's monster rallies. Up around the square went pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. On the facade of the gate towers went huge pictures of sunflowers bending to the sun, symbolic of the world's people being drawn to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. And on the north wall, dwarfing all the other portraits, was a tinted image of the sun god himself, Mao...
Everything was in place last week for National Day-the 17th anniversary of the founding of Red China. Three million Chinese crowded into the vast square as Mao and his lieutenants filed onto the reviewing stand to the martial strains of The East Is Red. Sinologists studied the standing order for clues as to who was up and who was down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen...
Soviet Walkout. Though some Red Guards had clamored for Mao himself to speak on National Day, he remained silent. Instead, Lin Piao once again talked for him. Lin lauded China's economic situation ("prosperous and full of vigor"), described the world climate as "excellent" for revolution, and called the U.S. and U.S.S.R. conspirators in "plotting peace swindles for stamping out the Vietnamese people's revolutionary struggle." As a result, the diplomats from the Soviet Union and six other Communist countries walked out of the celebration...
After the speeches, Mao rose to wave to the 1,500,000 marchers who began filing through the square. First came soldiers, then wave after wave of Red Guards, some carrying volumes...
...army was caught up in the violence. Or so it seemed from an order published on the front page of the Liberation Army Daily. It decreed an end to squabbling between political commissars and their counterparts in uniform. In fact, the shreds of evidence emerging last week suggested that Mao and his fanatical followers were becoming alienated not only from significant elements in the army but from sizable numbers of the Chinese people, just as they were from the rest of the world...