Word: mao
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Under The Gun. There was a certain inevitability to the military's new power. During the uncultured excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards encouraged by Chairman Mao Tse-tung smashed much of the country's administrative machinery. In its place, regional power centers appeared. Of the 29 Revolutionary Committees that administer China today, 20 are controlled by army officers and the balance are run by men known to sympathize with the army's aims. The party now has become all but subordinate to the army, in clear contradiction of the Maoist dictum: "The party commands...
HONG KONG--The Peking, People's Daily reported that Red China's barbers recite Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and slogans without stop from the first to the last snip of their shears...
...Despite this help, North Korea is anything but a Soviet satellite. Kim has refused to dispatch a delegation to Moscow's conference of the world's Communist parties this June. He remains equally cold to the Chinese, neglecting to send even a routine message of greetings to Mao's Ninth Party Congress, currently in progress in Peking. He has a good excuse: the Chinese barely acknowledged North Korea's 20th-anniversary celebrations last year, and during the carefree days of Red Guard rioting Kim was assailed as a "disciple of Khrushchev" and a "fat revisionist." Until...
Recognition Cycle. The congress could hardly have been held at a more critical time. Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution appears to have drawn to a close, and it is possible that Peking may return to more flexible foreign policies that could undermine Taiwan's international position. Taipei realizes that Washington would like nothing better than a relaxation of tensions with Peking. Besides, a more rational Chinese Communist view of the world would persuade more nations not only to recognize Mao's regime but also to swell the annual vote in favor of Peking's admission...
...conflict began at noon on Wednesday. About 250 students from Harvard and Radcliffe, most of them members of Students for a Democratic Society and the pro-Mao Progressive Labor Party, appeared outside University Hall, the three-story administration building at the center of Harvard Yard. They reiterated six "unnegotiable" demands made on the Harvard Corporation.*The issues: the abolition of ROTC and an end to what the radicals consider Harvard's "expansionist" approach to its urban surroundings...