Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factory workers in Shanghai and possibly Nanking walked off their hobs this week apparently at the instigation of provincial leaders want to increase factory and farm outputs and are evidently annoyed about a resolution to extend Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution into "the minds, the factories, and the countryside." The provincial leaders feel, justifiably, that this will hinder production and threaten their prestige...
...cultural Revolution is an nation-wide cram session in Maoist thought that has been largely an urban phenomenon for the first few months of its active life. According to the rules, everyone takes as much time off as possible to read and discuss Mao's writings, and all are encouraged to point our mistakes committed by their elders and leaders...
...Bomb. Some previously unscathed idols were also tarred by Guard posters last week. Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister. There was no "confession" from Chen Yi, though. After the posters appeared, he continued to act as one of Mao's spokesmen by publicly lambasting the Russians for their "dirty political deals." Even more surprising was an attack on Tao Chu, who has risen rapidly since last August to become one of Mao's inner circle as party propaganda chief. Tao Chu appeared at a rally...
Whoever was responsible for the posters, Peking's press was pushing the revolutionary word on other fronts. Article after article claimed that a miraculous upsurge in industrial and agricultural production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result...
...certify the value of what one writer called "the atomic bomb of Mao's thought," China exploded its fifth nuclear device last week at its Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang. As the Chinese press reported it, the test was "a heavy blow to the plot of U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism." A more objective analysis will have to wait until the fallout drifts into the hands of Western scientists...