Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on that nut house called China [Sept. 9] was a splendid piece of political writing. Mao Tse-tung has gone even beyond Stalin, his patron saint and political guru, in villainy. No political leader in history cuts such a ridiculous figure trying to stamp his aging image on the hearts of nearly 800 million people...
...resistance he has met shows that freedom still flickers in Red China. As hard as Mao and Piao try, they will not be able to quench this smoking flax of freedom, for this idiotic brand of totalitarianism can never ever establish itself. IVAN SASSOON Calcutta, India...
...bound trains, buses and trucks have been crammed with groups of excited students and teachers. They are crowding into the city's university halls and football stadiums, into railroad-station waiting rooms and public squares "to exchange revolutionary experiences" and listen to lectures on the means of spreading Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution across the land. Peking, in fact, has become a giant revolving revival meeting as tens of thousands have come to town, then, rearmed with Mao's think, have gone home, often accompanied by cadres of Peking students to ensure their continued...
Thus in Peking was born the strangest phenomenon of China's current convulsions: the Red Guards. For the name, Mao reached back to another time of troubles-the civil strife of the '20s and '30s. Mao first used the Red Guard label in 1927 to designate the peasant irregulars who fought alongside his troops in such battles as the victorious assault on the walled city of Tingchow. Later, Red Guards accompanied Mao and his men on the Long March in the mid-1930s to the safety of the caves of Yenan...
Ghostly Organizer. The reincarnation of the Guards in their present form came in mid-June. A pilot group was organized at Tsinghua University's middle school in Peking. The organizer and initial commander of the Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms...