Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest student organization, represents the campus governments of some 300 colleges. It arranges hundreds of foreign trips and wide-ranging student exchange programs, and holds an annual National Student Congress to debate a few domestic issues and countless international questions ranging from "Whither Africa?" to "How Now, Chairman Mao?" The association was founded in 1947 by 24 American campus leaders, including White House Aide Douglass Cater, then a recent Harvard graduate, after a trip to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague, where lavishly financed Communist groups stole the show; one of their organizers was Komsomol Leader Aleksandr Shelepin...
...some districts of Red China, the once ubiquitous portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung has been replaced by that of President Liu Shao-chi, his chief opponent. This horrendous fact was reported last week, over the chop mark of Mrs. Mao's own purge committee, as proof that the Maoists' struggle to overcome the enemies of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is far from won. "They disdainfully refuse to admit their guilt," said the wall posters at the People's University in Peking. "We still have a long way to go before eliminating them...
...events in China clearly showed last week, that warning is accurate. The Maoists are having trouble almost everywhere. In his attempt to use the army to purge dissident leaders, Mao has run into a major difficulty: the army, created by the Communist Party, is finding it unpalatably difficult to discipline or destroy its creator. In fact, there are signs that the army is badly split. For Mao, whose maxim is that "power grows from the barrel of a gun," that was bad news indeed. Many guns in the People's Liberation Army are now apparently turning in his direction...
...Mao's tactical mistake to date in calling for a new revolution seems to have been his failure to understand the forces he was unleashing and the length to which they would go either to propagate or oppose his "thought." So far, Mao claims control in only five of China's 21 provinces; a wall poster quoted Mrs. Mao as admitting that even Peking itself is not entirely subjugated (fully ten of the city's districts are unsafe for Maoism). The rest of the capital, indeed much of the country, remains in chaos. Although many Red Guards...
...abuse: Old Warriors Chu Teh, 81, and Ho Lung, 70, Veterans of the Long March and (with Lin Piao) leaders of the Eighth Route Army during China's civil war. Both were charged with "counterrevolutionary activity." If men of such formidable stature are indeed lining up against Mao, it is clear that the battle for Red China is far from over...