Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book becomes remarkably unhistorical because he is being so brilliantly a social scientist. He is bringing in Dr. Ametai Etzioni and all these fabulous characters to tell you about management and things of that kind, and he leaves out the K'anghsi emperor--and everybody lying back of Chairman Mao--who are really peering over his shoulder...
...course, has the resources in firepower and men to defeat any Communist force anywhere in Viet Nam that is willing to stand and fight for any length of time. But, true to Mao's manual of guerrilla warfare, the enemy is fighting for the most part only when he chooses and with a willingness to take heavy losses to undermine U.S. patience in the war. (One North Vietnamese defector along the DMZ claimed that his job was to dig graves for a third of his unit before it went into battle against the Marines...
Educated in Hue, he started his career as a teacher, acquiring skills that he put to work when he joined the Communists in the 1930s and helped to create Ho Chi Minh's party youth organization. He learned his soldiering in Mao Tse-tung's military "academy" in Yeman from 1941 to 1943, then fought with the Chinese Communists until the end of World War II. From 1950 to 1961 he was chief political officer for Ho's army in Hanoi; in 1964 he was sent to South Viet Nam, where he had since directed, with considerable...
...Burma, the outburst started after Chinese embassy aides started passing out Mao Tse-tung badges and little Red bibles of Mao-think. The government banned both the badges and the bibles, and a crowd of Chinese students in Rangoon retaliated by taking their teachers as hostages and beating up newsmen. The Burmese struck back by sacking Chinese-owned shops. Burma's military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule...
Khrushchev takes credit for preserving world peace by refusing to supply Red China with nuclear armaments, and quotes from a 1959 conversation with Mao Tse-tung to demonstrate Chinese bellicosity. "Comrade Khrushchev," Mao said, "you have only to provoke the Americans to military action and I will give you as many people as you wish-100 divisions, 200 divisions, 1,000." Khrushchev goes on to tell how he explained to Mao that "with contemporary techniques, his divisions meant nothing, because one or two rockets would be enough to turn all the divisions into dust." Mao disagreed, Khrushchev reports, "obviously regarding...