Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were all the boys atop the reviewing stand at Tienanmen Square as usual, dressed in their formless grey tu nics, trousers and caps and led by Mao Tse-tung himself. The grouping showed no real change in the hierarchy, but last week's celebration of China's Na tional Day was still unusual. Only 500,-000 gathered at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, compared with last year's 1,500,000. The parade lasted only two hours instead of the previous four. In place of last year's 20-ft. colossus, there...
...accent of the festivities was on the People's Liberation Army, and not on the Red Guard units that dominated last year's celebration. In fact, Mao said not a word; he left the speaking to Defense Minister and Heir Apparent Lin Piao. Lin's message: Now is the time to ease up on the Cultural Revolution and consolidate. "The revolution," said Lin, "has won a decisive victory. It has spread to the whole of China. Hundreds of millions of people have been aroused...
Death on TV. They have indeed been aroused, but not quite in the way that Lin and Mao would have wished. Some Sinologists, taking advantage of National Day to sum up their feelings on China, are now convinced that a halt has been called to the Cultural Revolution-but that the chaos and dis order it has spawned among China's restless masses are far from finished...
...down Canton's streets, and there is an overpowering feeling of agitation and frustration. Red Guards march around in vigilante groups, stern-faced and forbidding. People move rapidly out of their way. I saw them surround and berate an old man who dared look at an anti-Mao poster, which they promptly tore down. I was stopped several times by Red Guards who demanded identification and were only slightly mollified when I produced my passport. The Westerner is always aware of simmering malevolence toward him. While some still exhibit traditional Chinese graciousness, there are many more who shout obscenities...
...have rival Maoist groups. They indulge in loud verbal battles, with hysterically screaming girls pouring out torrents of abuse at each other and at "U.S. imperialist aggressors." As we inched through the masses at one point, a beautiful Chinese travel-service girl told me with a delightful smile: "Chairman Mao has taught us that we must crush the American aggressors. We must kill, crush, destroy all imperialist monsters." I asked her if she really believed that all foreigners were monsters. With melting gentleness, she replied: "Chairman Mao tells...