Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
With Castro in power, Che dabbled in Cuban politics, agriculture, finance and military training; at the same time, he shaped his own independent and pragmatic brand of guerrilla Marxism, even more violent than Mao Tse-tung's. In contrast with Castro, Che was not afraid to put his theories above politics. In 1965, at a time when Castro was trying to draw closer to Moscow, Che went barnstorming around Africa and Asia, drumming up support for a bloc of small socialist countries to counteract the "imperialism of large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana...
With the Cultural Revolution, Mao originally intended to sweep away the musty party machinery and replace it with a more revolutionary and popular-based organization. The nucleus of his new organization-a "grand alliance" of loyal government workers, military men and Red Guards-is well established in Pe king, Shanghai and five of China's 26 provinces and regions. But in other areas, the Cultural Revolution has only succeeded in breaking down local organization without supplanting it with any workable substitute...
...such areas, chaos still reigns. Several provinces have reported fighting between Maoists and anti-Maoists, and peasants are said to be massing for anti-Mao drives. The army is trying to restore order in such major cities as Canton, and thus is emerging as a more important force than the Red Guards, who often fight each other. Radio broadcasts have told of rallies at which the pronouncement and execution of death sentences on ten anti-Maoists were cheered by huge crowds; proceedings were carried on television as a warning to Mao's enemies...
...Deeds. Aside from the outright violence, Mao is faced with the breakdown of the collectivization and central authority that he so brutally imposed on his countrymen. Many factory and farm workers alike are deserting their jobs and turning on Mao. Some peasants are flaunting old land deeds and demanding their farms back. Others are enlarging private plots, expanding their own private markets. Still others are disappearing from their farms altogether and fleeing to the cities. The result is that much of this year's grain crop, which should otherwise equal last year's 180 million tons...