Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHENEVER Mao Tse-tung, the 76-year-old leader of 750 million Chinese, slips from the public eye for any length of time, the world beyond his closed kingdom soon begins to buzz with rumors of his illness or even death. In late 1965 and early 1966, Mao faded from view for six months, only to reappear suddenly and launch his disruptive Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This year the Chairman's last public appearance occurred in mid-May -more than four months ago-and speculation about his health has begun to mount once again...
Earlier this month, Washington picked up an unconfirmed report that Mao was paralyzed; at about the same time Sinologists in Hong Kong heard rumors, from sources inside and outside China, that he was gravely ill. Then, from Moscow late last week, came the most detailed report to date. Communist sources there told TIME Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter that Mao had suffered a stroke on Sept. 2 and was in critical condition; only a massive medical effort was keeping him alive. According to the sources, while Mao alternated between coma and consciousness decision-making in Peking was being handled...
...Mao Tse-tung's incapacitation or death would mark the end of China's most momentous era. Mao took a fragmented, warring nation, plunged it into the crucible of a Communist revolution, and for two decades thereafter used persuasion and terror to keep it from falling apart. He restructured the social order of the world's most populous nation and made China a power to be reckoned with. Within China, Mao's departure could result in a further loosening of Peking's central authority, already curtailed in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. It could...
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...appealed for Sino-Soviet talks. Moreover, the Chinese had stumbled badly in their handling of North Viet Nam over the past several days. Chou had flown to Hanoi before Ho's funeral, then left with almost indecent haste in the face of Kosygin's arrival. Neither Chairman Mao nor No. 2 Man Lin bothered to show up to register condolences with North Viet Nam's embassy in Peking; China watchers suggested that Mao and Lin, who have not been seen in public for nearly four months, may be gravely...