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...acknowledged leader of the Left forces who unleashed the Cultural Revolution. Before him there was Liu Chao Shi who was denounced because he was in sympathy with the Soviet Union. But Liu was the acknowledged leader of the right-wing forces. Never mind the contradiction. After all, Mao Tse Tung believes in contradiction, if simple logic does not. But how could one ever know? Was there open debate? Was there party democracy? Has he read Lin's documents? Or has he read Liu's? But Mr. Nwafor is ready to accept the opinion of the victors. That is how tragedy...
Kwangtung Provincial Teachers' Training College was re-opened just one year ago, and the same professors who occupied the classroom podiums before Mao ignited the Cultural Revolution are back at work. At the school's helm, moreover, are many of the same school officials who four years ago came under fierce fire for bureaucratic airs and "capitalist-road" educational policies...
...Kwangtung Teachers' Training College has been given the major responsibility for compiling the textbooks used throughout the province's primary and high schools. Quotes from Mao are used liberally in the new texts to instruct students in "proletarian consciousness," according to a college official. The new primers--"still very much in the experimental stage" and therefore forbidden to foreigners--reportedly attempt to focus children's attention back toward the practical needs of their communities...
When not swinging the sledge, Loeb and the Union Leader can be downright cute in their way. After the announcement of Nixon's Peking trip, Loeb invited readers to rename the President's plane. Suggestions included go Mao, Pay Later and DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw. Loeb finally selected Freedom's Futile Flight. But fun and games are not restricted to presidential politics. When Loeb's choice for Governor was defeated in 1970 the Union Leader ran the names of some 15,000 registered Manchester-area voters who had not turned out. The implication...
Died. Chen Yi, 71, Chinese Foreign Minister since 1958 and longtime intimate of Mao Tse-tung; of intestinal cancer; in Peking. Like Chiang Kaishek. Chen honed his formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese...