Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese seem to feel that news, like eggs, improves with age. At any rate, the story was nine days old when it was bannered across Page One of every paper in Peking last week. CHAIR MAN MAO ENJOYS A SWIM IN THE YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an annual swimming meet on July 16 in the city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens...
...what the Reds will do next. The North Vietnamese eminence grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world's foremost practitioner of the dark art of insurgency warfare...
...that problem is the deployment of U.S. troops with all their mobile force and firepower in South Viet Nam. Scarcely a year ago, Giap, as he looked southward, could see victory in his grasp. Both Phase 1 (grassroots political organization) and Phase 2 (guerrilla warfare, terrorism, sabotage) in Mao's handbook of insurgency had long since been accomplished in South Viet Nam. Late in 1964, Giap apparently decided that the time had come for Phase 3-an escalation of the conflict into conventional war, attacking in large numbers for the kill. In preparation, he began to move the first...
...Charge? Nor are his men any longer swimming comfortably in the seas of population spelled out by Mao Tse-tung as the necessary environment for guerrilla warfare. Whatever dubious benefits the Viet Cong might once have brought South Vietnamese villagers, now they bring, by their presence, bombs from the omnipresent fleet of 1,000 U.S. planes wheeling through the Viet Nam skies. As a result, in many a village the Viet Cong are no longer welcome, and some 900,000 villagers have fled V.C.-controlled areas. The Reds have been forced to step up taxation, rice levies and recruitment...
...fourths of the 90-odd members of the national party's Central Committee have not been mentioned by press or radio for the past six months, and more and more China watchers are coming to believe that the reported purges reflect a far wider struggle to succeed ailing Mao Tse-tung. The faction currently in the ascendancy seems to be using its opportunity to junk allies of the losers, but among the gainers almost certainly is Defense Minister Lin Piao. Travelers recently returning to Hong Kong from China report having seen posters declaring "Long Live Chairman Mao! Long Live...