Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has changed course numerous times in its tumultuous 27-month existence. The alternating current is provided, of course, by Mao Tse-tung. His heart is with the radicals, who advocate violence to cleanse conservatism from China, but his head must sometimes nod to the moderates, who say that stability is needed before the revolution can make progress. Last week a set of new directives from Peking made it clear that Mao has decided, at least for now, on head over heart...
...little choice. His minority extremists, composed largely of student Red Guards and egged on by Mrs. Mao, Chiang Ching, were losing out in bloody battles with more conservative workers and peasants who are backed by most of the army. To keep China from falling apart entirely, Mao apparently moved over to the majority side...
...Others: Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh, who also authored a play, The Bamboo Dragon, which flopped in Paris...
...Peking is attempting an end run on India's defenses in the Naga Hills at the eastern end of the border. The Naga tribesmen who live there have been demanding their own nation for 21 years and are thus receptive to arms, aid and instruction in guerrilla warfare. Mao Tse-tung, true to his own policy of supporting "wars of national liberation," has lately taken to supplying the arts and tools of subversion to the Nagas...
...battle of the bladder." Only the two senior members speak, and they do not speak to each other but through intermediaries, communicating only by glares. Everything is translated not only into English and Korean, but into Chinese as well; four Chinese delegates are present at almost every meeting, with Mao badges displayed on their tunics...