Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beating drums and gongs and waving their talismanic little red books of Mao, the Red Guards were at it again last week, surging in frenzied rhythm through the streets of Peking, Shanghai, Nanking and dozens of lesser cities...
...Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they also signaled a new phase in China's upheaval after several weeks of comparative quiet...
...Asia, Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards have destroyed the image of Red China as a seductive model for emerging countries and largely reduced the credibility of China as a military threat before whom her neighbors must cringe. In fact, while China has been thrashing in economic disorder, her neighbors have by and large prospered and plucked up their courage, partly-as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew admitted publicly last week and other neutralist nations cautiously indicate in private-because of the U.S.'s determined stand in South Viet...
Everyone knows that communications between Peking and Moscow are scrambled at best. Now Radio Peking has set a new record for incomprehensibility in the land of Mao. Its Russian-language service has taken to replaying tapes of its anti-Soviet diatribes backward. The weird garble goes on for 21 hours at a stretch, and in London one mystified Pekingologist, who was monitoring the show, finally shrugged: "I suppose there's just nobody left in Peking who knows one end of a Russian tape from the other...
...Mao Tse-tung came to power in the traditional way, by slaughtering his enemies. By operating on a grand scale, he even gained temporary control of the cities. Now he is reaping his reward...