Word: mao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senderista women and 120 men in a nearby cellblock break for an "agitation," in which they rattle the bars and hurl earsplitting insults at their guards. For recreation, there is volleyball in a pavilion's patio, under red-painted panels that pay homage to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Close to the top of the walls the Senderistas have daubed, in red paint, a paraphrase of the Chairman's poetry: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO DARE TO SCALE THE HEIGHTS...
...inmates belong to the "authentic" Peruvian Communist Party, which is how Senderistas see themselves. These true believers disdain both the Soviet Union, which they consider to be as imperialist as the U.S., and today's China. Their goal is to establish a workers' state along the lines of Mao Zedong's China. "We believe in armed struggle to take power," said Dalila. "We will fight generations to take it, and we are ready to die if we have to." They are also ready to kill. The Senderistas are said to have murdered thousands. While many of their targets are government...
News Editor for this issue: Julie L. Belcove '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Copy Editor: Cynthia L. Mao '91 Editorial Editor: Gary L. Sussman '89 Feature Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Sports Editor: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Photo Editors: Hector I. Osorio '89 Gavin R. Villareal '90 Business Editor: Amy J. Merritt...
News Editor for this Issue: Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Brooke A. Masters '89 Copy Editor: Cynthia L. Mao '91 Editorials Editor: John J. Murphy '89 Features Editor: Mark M. Colodny '89 Photo Editor: Lisa Clark '89 Peter H. Miller '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Casey J. Lartigue Jr. '89 Business Editor: Michael L. Gordon...
...isolation of the "Wish-Fulfilling Gem" and his mountain kingdom was shattered as the Chinese attacked from eight different directions. Suddenly the teenage ruler was obliged to take a crash course in statesmanship, traveling to Beijing to negotiate with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. Finally, in March 1959, when a bloody confrontation seemed imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back...