Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism is not love!" cried Mao Tse-tung. "Communism is a hammer we use to destroy our enemies...
...Mao, the somewhat enigmatic ruler of Red China, has certainly been flailing in all directions with his hammer of late, but nothing much has been destroyed. Even Nikita Khrushchev, Mao's most recent target, has emerged unscathed from Peking's incessant blows. The only thing Mao has done with his paper hammer is to fan new hatreds for himself and his Red regime...
...Beard, Fidel's revolutionary sympathies lie with Mao, but he knows better than to bite Nikita's hand, and last week he dutifully endorsed the Moscow line. Still, Red China has not given up hope of converting Castro. Cuba is one of the few places in the world where both Chinese and Russian technicians remain at work. This month Peking happily proclaimed that its experts have helped the Cubans to raise 25,000 Peking ducks...
...spiked iron gates when he opened a peephole to scrutinize an arriving automobile. For the first time, Russians were willing to talk and even to joke about the Sino-Soviet conflict. One crack making the rounds in Moscow suggested that the way to solve the whole thing was for Mao Tse-tung and Charles de Gaulle to conclude an alliance, thus letting the two troublemakers take care of each other...
Time was when Western skeptics wondered whether the Sino-Soviet split was real. Khrushchev, they figured, might be relatively nice to the West only long enough to wangle some concessions on NATO or nuclear arms control; then Mao would step in and together they would demolish the free world. Today it is inconceivable that the quarrel is merely an act. In fact, there is a growing vision-shared by such disparate prophets as Arnold Toynbee and Charles de Gaulle-of Russia and the West some day standing together as allies against China. Stranger things have happened in history...