Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed it to rubble. That particular act of barbarism, as Peking saw it, "marks a great victory for the thought of Mao Tse-tung...
...regarded long, itemized reports of destruction with some skepticism and merely talked about "widespread violence." Armed with new proof of terror and destruction, they have seriously started re-examining whether, in their efforts to report the situation accurately, they have not underestimated the extent of violence and bloodshed in Mao's China...
Another agent of imperialism has been run to earth in Red China, and this one had infiltrated the very heart of the state security apparatus. The story, as related by the party paper Wen Hui Pao, revolves around Lo Jui-ching, Mao's purged Minister of Public Security, and Sherlock Holmes, that "watchdog of the British bourgeoisie." Lowly Lo was so hooked on Holmes he instructed his agents to emulate Sherlock's "special abilities of detection, to do cloak-and-dagger and high-class special work, to live in unusual circumstances and to be exceptional men different from...
...knows better. Not since Mao Tse-tung managed to pass himself off as an agrarian reformer has power masqueraded in such an artful impostor. A Viet Nam-watcher for two decades (Vietnam: Between Two Truces) and a student of other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...
...Malaya, most of the country's 10,000 Communist terrorists had been subdued by British and Malayan forces. The drive was a notable success, often wistfully compared with the considerably different results in Viet Nam. But the Communists have never completely abandoned the field. Going underground, pro-Mao Communists have infiltrated trade unions and set up cover organizations and political parties. Worried officials report that in Sarawak, bordering Indonesian territory, Communists have successfully penetrated the whole fabric of society, from political parties to schools. In some rural areas, agents are openly training youths in armed guerrilla warfare...