Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations intend to pursue the battle against Israel. Almost without exception, their leaders reject Israeli peace terms, swear that they will neither negotiate with the Israelis nor recognize their existence. Last week, in the face of devastating defeat, the Arabs were quoting to each other an old saying by Mao Tse-tung: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, but fight on to final victory...
Despite the Disorders. If any country ever seemed too irrational to possess weapons of mass destruction, it is Mao Tse-tung's China. In the nine months since the aging (73) Mao launched his xenophobic Cultural Revolution, China has lurched dangerously close to anarchy and hysteria. Government control has broken down in vast areas. Even Mao's own forces of Red Guards, workers and army troops have started fighting among themselves. The wall posters in Peking tell of daily bloody battles, riots and vandalism all across the stricken land. Red China's blast showed that, despite...
Growing Disorder. Mao seems more worried than ever over the fragmentation of the Cultural Revolution that he unleashed nine months ago. The Red Guards, who were his first chosen instruments for rooting out his opponents, have become so unruly and fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place...
Despite his frenetic witch hunting, Mao has won undisputed control of only four of Red China's 21 provinces, and only two (Peking and Shanghai) of its major cities. Now, since his supporters have begun fighting among themselves, he is unlikely to make much more progress. Peking wall posters last week told of a violent battle between rival Maoist groups in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders on North Viet Nam. According to the big character signs, 266 Maoists were killed and 1,000 wounded. Stability in Yunnan is vital to Mao because through it pass...
Uncertain Future. Mao's moves provided new grist for China-watchers from Hong Kong to Harvard. At a Washington meeting of China experts last week, American University's Ralph Powell insisted that much of the trouble stems from Mao's idealistic demand that Red China's leaders should "act like guerrilla revolutionaries." Said Powell: "Mao is a romantic, and they are a bunch of bureaucrats. They don't want to oppose the old man; they just wish he would go away and leave them alone to run their own provinces." Berkeley's Robert Scalapino...