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...chaotic days of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, millions of youthful Red Guards were unleashed by Mao Tse-tung to scrub China clean of prerevolutionary ideas. Instead, the Red Guards nearly wrecked the country, and had to be suppressed by the army. Now Mao is turning to youth again. Apparently the Chairman feels that its energy-if carefully controlled by party cadres-can spur the dragging campaign to rid China of revisionist "poison" spread by Lin Piao, Mao's former heir apparent...
...shock troops will be drawn from the Communist Youth League, which was virtually destroyed during the Cultural Revolution but is now being carefully reconstructed. Last November Mao issued "important instructions" to rectify and rebuild the league. Since then, preparatory conferences have been held in hundreds of cities and counties. Party workers are calling for the enlistment of young people who "have studied Marxism-Leninism and Mao's thought hard, actively taken part in great revolutionary campaigns, and integrated closely with the masses." Youths who are being recruited to join the league receive promises of such social luxuries as libraries...
Jeanne Rasche Delloff was a student of philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago three years ago and, by her own account, "reading Kant, Plato, Mao, Marx and Nietzsche until 3 a.m. every night." On May 6, 1970, inspired partly by her readings, she joined some 1,500 other students in a sit-in at the university's R.O.T.C. building to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings of students on two U.S. campuses. Arrested for criminal trespass on state-supported property-a misdemeanor-she was urged to plead guilty. "I thought about it from...
...REST of the world looks to Peking, a generation is coming of age here on Taiwan a generation that calls itself Chinese and this island China. They wonder vaguely what will happen when Chiang dies when Mao dies if they will really liberate the mainland before the mainland liberates them. But the charade of free China is of limited interest to this-a generation bored with politics and jaded by propaganda. They are too busy surviving...
...Ruski Boulevard, in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...