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...Even American journalists are not in a position to say how this will come out." Questioned as to whether U.S. reporters' relentless pursuit of the Watergate scandal might jibe with Mao Tse-tung's injunction that the press should "serve the people," she replied, "I would rather not comment on that...
...typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style. The encounter groups center about the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Chairman Mao...
...schools, calling them "reform schools for reformers." With memories of the Cultural Revolution fading fast, the schools have become institutionalized. No longer does a suspect cadre get sent to one for an indeterminate stay to learn to serve the people. The tensions, as well as the physical abuses that Mao himself lamented, have also ebbed. Today, May Seventh schools combine aspects of a Marxist religious retreat and a voluntary labor camp...
...room. Each person has a small bed and a towel, which hangs from a clothesline stretched across the ceiling. The only decorations are the regulations and daily schedule pasted to the wall. There is a bookcase made from wooden boxes filled with Marx, Lenin and the collected works of Mao. A small table in the middle of the room serves as the study center...
...mistakes and shortcomings in class consciousness are attributed to a lack of thorough study of Chairman Mao's directives. Persuasion is the keynote-persuasion and reiteration. For two weeks of the six-month course, the cadres are sent off to live with peasant families, where they learn other farming techniques and gain an appreciation of how poorer classes of Chinese have, coped with their problems...