Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China prepared for its National Day, celebrating the 18th anniversary this week of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation of a Chinese Communist state, Correspondent John Cantwell crossed into Mao's stricken land for TIME. An Australian who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, Cantwell spent several days in the big South China city of Canton, the scene of recent anti-Maoist riots and disorders. He found the city of 2,500,000 relatively quiet on the surface but seething underneath with barely repressed violence. His report...
...about every building is covered with posters, as if naughty children had been let loose with paint and brushes. Swarms of people gather around government-printed posters that show the downcast faces of men who have been executed for antirevolutionary activity. Other posters attack Chiang Kaishek, Lyndon Johnson and Mao's archrival, President Liu Shao-chi; some attack Mao himself. Posters are put up and ripped down by rival factions, and the city resembles a huge wastepaper basket...
Portraits of Mao are everywhere: in every home, on every wall, every train, every truck, every car, every bicycle, in every hotel room. My bed at the Tung Fang Hotel, the only place where foreigners can stay, was topped by a huge portrait of Mao with eyes that follow you all over the room. On another wall was a framed quotation of the Chairman's in a facsimile of his own handwriting. At one point I was the only Western visitor in Canton, and I sat alone in the huge baronial dining room of the hotel, faced...
...pillboxes and gun emplacements are being built on street corners. In an attempt to quell the anarchy, Peking is reported to have sent 100,000 People's Liberation Army troops into Canton, but the story that comes out is that they soon were at war with anti-Mao local troops and blasting away with mortars, artillery and tanks. Last week one traveler reaching Hong Kong described how some 200 Maoists were wiped out in a single stroke when anti-Maoists blew up a Cultural Revolution headquarters...
...institute of technology, and the Bulgarians financed a gleaming new 70,000-seat sport stadium outside Tunis. Bourguiba has not been so lucky with all Communists. After he allowed four Chinese sports instructors in to teach young Tunisians pingpong, he discovered that they had opened a campaign to spread Mao-thought; now Tunisia is on the verge of breaking relations with Peking...