Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao...
...them, North Viet Nam and Cuba, are heavily dependent on Russian arms and aid. The third, North Korea, customarily sides with the Russians in the Sino-Soviet dispute. On the other hand, the most biting protest of all came from, of all places, China. Mao and Co. would not think of tolerating a Dubcek in China, and they have berated Moscow precisely because it has been soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced...
...editorial in the official Peking People's Daily ordered an end to factionalism, support for the army and the army-dominated revolutionary committees, and abandonment of the "mountain-stronghold mentality" by those who consider themselves more Maoist than Mao himself. These people, said the paper, are "swell-headed, and have even distorted Chairman Mao's instructions...
What those instructions are has never been very clear, but Peking press, and radio in a series of lectures, told the people not to worry about puzzling them out. One editorial demanded obedience to the "proletarian headquarters, with Chairman Mao as the leader and Vice Chairman Lin Piao as the deputy leader." Their headquarters is "the one and sole leading center" for the nation. Another directive gave the army authority to deal with recalcitrant Red Guards "according to the laws of the state," reducing them virtually to the status of common criminals and counterrevolutionaries. The writing of posters and publishing...
Mangoes from Mao. Along with the army, the workers also got the green light for reforming the Red Guards. Mao dispatched "worker-peasant, Mao Tse-tung-thought propaganda teams" to rebellious college campuses in Peking, Shanghai and Canton, which have been dominated by Red Guards. To dramatize the move, Mao sent a shipment of mangoes to the workers on Tsinghua University campus in Peking, where they were solemnly sniffed and touched, one commentary reverently reported, then preserved chemically as a "token of Chairman Mao's great attention to the working class." The gift was celebrated at campus rallies...