Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the reason lies in the vast areas of countryside they still control. The countryside is what Mao Tse-tung called "the true bastion of iron" for a revolutionary and guerrilla war, and from that bastion, particularly the populous, rice-rich Delta, comes food for the ten or so North Vietnamese divisions fighting south of the DMZ as well as fresh recruits for the V.C. main-force units. V.C. women assemble hand grenades in jungle factories, stitch uniforms, care for the wounded. Small boys dig trenches and bunkers, carry messages, build booby traps and learn to throw an occasional...
...Linyi, anti-Maoist party officials "instigated large numbers of peasants to enter the city and encircle, attack and beat up" Red Guards and Maoist officials. A similar "vicious and cruel suppression" was meted out to cultural revolutionaries in Tsaochwang. Fighting was also reported in Hunan, Mao's home province, and in Kwangtung and Szechwan provinces...
Dismal Failure. Mao's difficulties with the army stem less from the commanders' opposition to Mao himself than from the soldiers' distaste for the disorder that the Cultural Revolution's Red Guards have created in their domains. Since the army's men in the ranks tend to come from the regions where they are stationed, they put heavy pressure on their commanders to side with the local people and party officials against Peking...
...knows better than Mao that for all his high status as the Sun King of Chinese Communism, the loyalty of the army is essential if his revolutionary dream is to come to pass. Last week Red Flag bluntly warned that the Maoists "face the danger of losing the army," and Mao took action. First, he promised that all of the top brass who would come to the army's 40th anniversary party and repent and switch to his full support "would be welcomed." The ploy was a dismal failure: only four of China's 13 regional commanders showed...
...choices are difficult. Unless Mao compromises and cools the Cultural Revolution or else thoroughly purges the army-if he still can-his troops are likely to remain uncertain and divided, making outright civil war an ever greater possibility...