Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science of guerrilla warfare. Though the group was organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro's leftist lieutenant, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara-ordered the Pentagon to step up the U.S.'s capability in unconventional warfare...
...Lumumba's death was too good an opportunity for Khrushchev to miss and a chance to prove to comrades the world over that he could be as militant as the Chinese when the chance came. "Do you think he could have passed it up, and then explained to Mao that he didn't want to offend his new friend, John F. Kennedy?" demanded one Western expert...
...gold-eagle bookends stayed on the presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk...
After a solemn five-day meeting of the Central Committee, they issued a communiqué that flatly reversed Chairman Mao Tse-tung's cherished plan to achieve a "big leap" in industry. Instead, the communiqué called for "appropriately reduced" industrial investments and urged "all sectors and occupations to step up support for agriculture" as "the foundation of the national economy...
Chairman's Plan. What went wrong was not the widely advertised series of "natural calamities"-though the communiqué talked gloomily of floods and droughts-but Chairman'Mao's own plans. More than two years ago, Mao launched his big push. Every peasant was to be put in a commune. He ordered a 10% cutback in acreage, accompanied by intensive cultivation that would release more manpower for industry. Mechanization and irrigation were supposed to keep the crop yields soaring. But though the new report brags that tractors have tripled, the total still comes to only...