Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation in China, reported the Soviet news agency Tass last week, "increasingly resembles civil war." Fighting between the supporters and the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution spread along the thousand miles of Yangtze River from Chungking in the western mountains to Shanghai on the Pacific coast...
Probably not even Mao himself knew just how bad the situation really was. What was clear was that more and more elements of the army were siding with the anti-Maoists in the provinces in a spreading disaffection directly traceable to the by-now-famed incident in Wuhan. There, three weeks ago, General Chen Tsai-tao, whose command includes the vital Yangtze River hub city, seized two top Mao emissaries sent from Peking to bring Chen to heel. Peking negotiated the pair's release; but despite frantic efforts since then, Mao has been unable to subdue the open rebellion...
Vicious & Cruel. Indeed, Mao's efforts seemed to have fanned the revolt. Nearby regional commanders were reported siding with General Chen. Chen in turn was supplying arms and troops up and down the Yangtze to aid other anti-Maoist rebels. According to the Shantung provincial radio, two cities in that province struck at Maoist groups in coordination with Wuhan's seizure of Mao's envoys...
...food front, the slogan is "calories do count, but people don't." This principle is supported by the Chinese Air Force diet-popularly known as "The Sinkiang Man's Diet"-which was first developed in the "Mao Clinic" and was tested by the 19,007th Lighter than Air Fighter Squadron (otherwise known as the "Flying Paper Tigers"). It offers recipes for such dishes as "True Way to Marxist Contentment Soup," and "Sweet and Rotten Pork," all of which consist of rice, fish heads (if available) and radishes. If faithfully followed, the regimen is guaranteed to eliminate not only...
William Randolph Hirsch is really three staffers on Monocle, a New York humor magazine-Marvin Kitman, Victor Navasky and Richard Lingeman. Their book combines a spoof of self-help manuals on how to be thin, agile and potent with a parody of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which after all is also a self-help book. In the Hirsch version of Chinese ideology, eating is as much a bourgeois deviation as making love. The book advances the remarkable theory that "under Communism, sex is work. Under capitalism, work...