Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose of politeness, the Sino-Soviet quarrel was becoming ruder than ever. Without explanation, Peking suddenly withdrew its two entries from an international film festival about to open in Moscow. And just before the party leaders met, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung exchanged a fresh round of insults over Red China's 25-point denunciation of Soviet policy. Although the Soviets themselves refused to publish it, Moscow complained last week that Chinese agents handed out the document in cities from Odessa to Leningrad and even in the atomic research...
...crippled in the Chinese civil war, still has a limp and a nervous tic when he speaks-which does not keep him from speaking often and abrasively. No stranger to the Russians, he attended two previous Moscow meetings on the split-in 1957 and in 1960. A veteran of Mao's Long March to Yenan in the 1930s, Teng came to prominence as a political commissar in the army, since 1952 has risen to a place among the top four or five men in Red China's hierarchy...
...former colonial peoples well on the road to Communism. Instead, capitalism is thriving, Western workers are going middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist. Mao Tse-tung favors changing the facts to fit the theory; he is, as Moscow says, a dogmatist...
Italian Flight. As usual, the dispute was between the Khrushchev line, which holds that to avoid nuclear disaster capitalism must be fought through peaceful means, and the Mao Tse-tung line, which demands an aggressive policy. Coming on in the first session at the Kremlin's modern Hall of Congresses, Japan's kimono-clad Fuki Kushida demanded the withdrawal of U.S. "aggressive forces" from South Viet Nam, Formosa, Okinawa, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. In a simpler period of Communist history, this might have passed almost unnoticed as the standard line, East or West...
Parrot & Stick. In 24,000 brazenly contemptuous words, Mao accused Khrushchev of spawning a new personality cult worse than Stalin's, assailed the Kremlin for "great power chauvinism and economic pressure" against other Red nations, charged the Soviets with trying to purge foreign Communist parties. Exclaimed Red China: "What is all this if not subversion...