Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truly frightened by the deliberate choice of barbarism over civilization that Mao has made. Such a rejection of anything involving the intellect surely goes to show that only when the people are ignorant animals responding to a war cry as inarticulate as it is destructive can a movement like the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" gain any momentum...
Keeping this in mind, one is reimpressed with the need to open wider the doors of higher education. Only as long as we educate ourselves and our children in as broad a manner as possible are we assured that a "Mao revolution" will not sweep over us, driving whatever man has accomplished of worth into oblivion...
...revolution, terror inevitably breeds reaction, and last week the first signs of it were evident in China. As the rabid Red Guards continued to root out real or imagined foes of Mao Tse-tung everywhere, reports from the northwestern city of Sian told of a three-day clash between revolutionary students and provincial party leaders who refused to go along with their idiotic demands. To humiliate the bureaucrats, the students finally staged a mass hunger strike in front of party headquarters. In Kwangtung province, scores of Red Guards were beaten by villagers after the youths set fire to a temple...
...check any sudden spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held by Mao...
Personal Attention. Host Prince Norodom Sihanouk had long been on record as considering De Gaulle and Mao Tse-tung the two greatest men in the world; thus, since Mao had never made the scene, De Gaulle was clearly Cambodia's all-time guest. Ever since De Gaulle invited himself, Sihanouk had been beside himself with preparations, personally presiding over every detail...