Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statesmen that he was not going to hornswoggle the West into concessions either by "peaceful coexistence" or even summitry-and had decided to leap ahead of his critics. For in Communism's harsh code, only results count. Peering over Khrushchev's shoulder is Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who challenges him as a Marxist theoretician and as leader of the "Socialist camp." Mao, who knows that it is not China that will get hit in a nuclear holocaust, has insistently been crying out against the folly of "softness" toward capitalism. Within the Kremlin itself, there...
Month after month, the refugees straggle into Macao, Portugal's ancient island colony just off the Chinese mainland. Ever since Mao Tse-tung launched his drive to force peasants off their land and into communes two years ago, the trickle has averaged 200 a month. But in recent weeks the slow flow has tripled and quadrupled. Among the recent refugees was one Kou Kong-kit, 20. Kou's story...
...bowl of rice. Wong was lying in a heap on the ground, moaning. The section foreman was shouting "Get up!" and punctuating each command with a kick in the belly. Wong tried to rise but could not. On his field telephone, the foreman summoned seven members of Mao's militia-big, well-fed northern men chosen because their ignorance of the Kwangtung dialect isolates them from the peasants they bully...
...last week there was emphatic evidence that the soft line does not suit aggressive, bumptious Red China, either in theory or practice. In Peking, Mao Tse-tung's editorialists took advantage of the Lenin celebration to take issue with Khrushchev. With the approaching summit meeting obviously in view, newspapers chorused that coexistence with capitalism is "impossible" for good Leninists. "The imperialist system will not crumble by itself," said the authoritative journal Red Flag. "It will be pushed over by the proletarian revolution...
Last week, as Red China's rubber-stamp National People's Congress met in its spanking new Peking headquarters, Mao and his henchmen changed their tune. With the rural communes so solidly established that 400 million Chinese peasants now eat in community mess halls, the Red commissars were ready to crack down on city dwellers. To the chorused cheers of 1,063 Congressmen, Liu Chieh-po. vice president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, triumphantly announced that communes had been established in most of China's cities, had been successfully imposed on the majority...