Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, tried to instill greater discipline within the army...
...ordered all army units "engaged in political work" to return to their barracks no later than Feb. 20. Peking's wall posters and newspapers warned of the dangers of an "armed palace coup" and hinted darkly that some army units may not be totally loyal to the Mao line. The return to barracks could provide Lin & Co. with an opportunity to refresh the army's memory on matters of Mao-think...
According to leaflets distributed in Peking, Mao Tse-tung alerted frontier troops, warning them that the Soviet Union was reinforcing its military strength along the Chinese border for possible anti-Chinese moves. The contempt with which each side now regards the other was nowhere better illustrated than along the Sino-Soviet border in Sinkiang province. There, according to a Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait of Mao...
...rage focused ever more fiercely on Russia, Red China last week imposed a notable tightening of internal discipline on Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Red Guards rampaging out of control throughout the country were ordered to return to their schools and homes and cease "exchanging revolutionary experiences" - a Chinese euphemism for raising hell...
With China's fragile transportation network already fragmenting under the constant back-and-forthing of the Red Guards, Mao's military commission announced that the army will take over all civil airports, aviation institutes and Red China's 51-plane airline. The take over was ostensibly a move "to prepare for war," but it was more likely a Mao move to try to head off a total breakdown of transportation. That was not all the army took over. The military commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced that the army would take control...