Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that were not enough, it cautioned that the opponents of Mao Tse-tung "are not dead tigers but living tigers ready to bite and eat people." Despite the Chinese love of hyperbole, Sinologists around the world last week agreed that the significance of such language can hardly be exaggerated: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in trouble for months, is descending further and further into political and social chaos...
...Burma tried to cope with as many as 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The brawling began after General Ne Win closed two Chinese schools for exces sive Mao-think in the curriculum and Chinese students hit the streets in protest, setting off the anti-Chinese explosion. Peking accused Rangoon of instigating an "outrage of white terror" against the Chinese, for the first time came out in full, open support of the more militant of Burma's two Com munist parties...
...Nepal was the scene of wild rioting after Nepalese Communist students waved pictures of Mao at an exhibit of Chinese photographs in Katmandu earlier this month. Passers-by wanted to know why the students did not also have pictures of King Mahendra, and before long fists were flying. Peking now claims that Nepal is conspiring with "imperialists...
...last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...
Fact from Surmise. Like other foreign correspondents, Bogunovic was virtually confined to Peking and denied access to high officials. He saw Mao only once in ten years. No more than two press conferences a year were held in Peking. But Bogunovic knew enough Chinese to get some notion of what was going on. From his years with the Yugoslav Communist Party, he was able to read between the lines of party pronouncements. What he surmised often turned out to be fact...