Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American flight from Rome. The State Department denied any role in his escape from Burundi, and Tung himself made it clear that his defection had been his own idea. "I saw the hypocrisy of China long before I decided to defect," he explained. What had disillusioned him was Mao's treatment of intellectuals, who had been asked to criticize the regime and were then denounced as traitors. Equally repellent was Red China's abortive "backyard furnace campaign" of 1958, in which the government cynically asked every neighborhood to smelt steel for the greater industrial glory of the country...
...south it could be avoided. Said one: "Whether we can get through the election [without escalation] is almost up to Hanoi. If it turns out that they are infiltrating very large numbers into South Viet Nam, we would have to rethink." U.S. policymakers could only hope that Hanoi-and Mao-would bear the consequences...
Message for Mao. Even so, the risk might conceivably have to be taken, for the fall of South Viet Nam would probably mean the Communists' overrunning of all Southeast Asia. There
Western Russia-and China-watchers are carefully studying the attack, and Berlin Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal concludes that, far from being merely another anti-Russian blast, it is in effect "Mao Tse-tung's ideological testament." For the document warns that the same sort of wicked reversion to capitalism that is happening...
Soviet Union could also happen in China. The Chinese party has had some cases of "degeneration," says the article, and there must be ceaseless vigilance to keep the newer generation of Chinese leaders from going soft, as the West hopes they will. Concluded Mao's testament: "A very long period of time is needed to decide who will win the struggle between socialism and capitalism. Several decades won't do it. Success requires anywhere from one to several centuries...