Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only was the mass-assault third phase in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla rule-book arrested, but the V.C. found themselves being rooted out of havens they had long considered invulnerable. Twice in the last month-first near Ben Cat in the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, then last week in Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province-rhas-ciwc allied sweeps penetrated preserves lethally off limits to anyone but Communists for 15 years...
China was already reaping rewards. New Delhi claimed the ultimatum was proof positive that Mao Tse-tung and Ayub Khan were plotting the destruction of India. Even so, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri tried to stave off war by belatedly agreeing to a two-year-old Chinese offer to have a Sino-Indian inspection team decide whether the fortifications were in China or Sikkim. No one had much hope the offer would be accepted...
...perhaps its most bellicose language yet. In a major policy statement printed by every major newspaper on the mainland, beetle-browed Defense Minister Lin Piao-one of the top seven men in Red China's hierarchy-called for worldwide subversion to destroy the U.S. and its allies. Recalling Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of enlisting the rural peasantry against city-based governments, Lin declared: "If North America and Western Europe can be called the cities of the world, then Asia, Africa and Latin America are the rural areas. The contemporary world revolution presents a picture...
This sort of brutal treatment, says the author, explains why the Chinese people-49 years later-welcomed with open arms the Communist victory in 1949. As for the accounts of mass murder perpetrated by the Reds (Chairman Mao himself modestly admits liquidating 800,000 landlords and capitalists from 1949 to 1954), they are horror stories invented by Western propagandists. In her eyes, Communist China has done no wrong, its leaders are the most kindly of men, and she visits Peking every year. "What astonished me most," says Suyin, marveling at Mao's benevolence, is the sight of "old warlords...
...Mao Tse-tung likes to swim, and every year millions of Chinese are urged to emulate him. Mao several times has swum the Yangtze, so last spring, 20,000 people made a mass crossing of the same river. In fact, reports the magazine China's Sport, swimming has become an "activity involving millions of all ages, and it has served as a call to hundreds of thousands to forgo swimming pools and take the plunge into the natural and rougher waters of China's many rivers and lakes as well as the open...