Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week long, Peking throbbed with the fever of crisis. A sea of demonstrators jammed the streets carrying red banners and pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Mao himself turned up briefly at one rally and was greeted by the singing of the nation's newest hit, We Rely on the Helmsman When We Sail the Ocean. After he left, crowds rushed forward to try to shake the hands of those who had shaken hands with Mao...
Revolutionary Meals. The call to take on expanded tasks was not limited to the army. While the main job of workers remains in industry, Mao has called on them to study military affairs, culture and, whenever possible, engage in agricultural production. Though the peasants' main task remains farming, they too should study military affairs, politics and culture and, if possible, "collectively run small plants." In addition to being a teacher, the army can engage in farming and "run some small or medium-size factories...
...spur the nation, Mao clearly wants to re-create the spirit of Yenan, where he and his followers in the 1930s holed up in caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...Mao is spreading his zeal in a particularly unpalatable way. In the past few months, the regime has been pushing a program to get the populace to eat an occasional "revolutionary meal" or "bitter-herb meal," made up of unhusked rice, wild-grown vegetables and leaves-the type of food that Mao and his fellow revolutionaries sometimes subsisted on during the Long March and the years in Yenan...
Ousted Executioner. The army's elevated role has moved Defense Minister Lin Piao, 59, into favored position to succeed the 72-year-old Mao. Lin's position was buttressed by last week's announcement that Marshal Lo Juiching, chief of the army general staff and leader of the massive executions in the mid-1950s (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), had been replaced by a Lin protégé and thus presumably purged. Lo made the mistake of arguing that the army should stay out of politics...