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Fanning out across England, a group of Mao-minded revolutionaries tries to seize control of the communication centers. When one of them invades a radio station, an obliging engineer advises that the first air time available is three weeks from Monday. Another rebel bursts into the House of Commons gallery, but his fiery oration is drowned out by a weary debate taking place on the floor. Finally, Prime Minister Harold Wilson gets wind of the revolution and goes...
...isolate Red China (though he concedes that China did a great deal to isolate itself), and he regards as "silly" and a "sham" the U.S. policy of recognizing the Nationalist regime on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. Reischauer's prescription: grant immediate diplomatic recognition to Mao Tse-tung, seek Chinese admission to the U.N., and declare publicly that the U.S. wishes harmonious relations with China. He knows that this would have no immediate influence on Mao Tse-tung and the present Peking regime, but he is obviously thinking about another generation of Chinese leaders...
...favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over a map of Southeast Asia, stretching their fingers toward Thailand...
With Castro in power, Che dabbled in Cuban politics, agriculture, finance and military training; at the same time, he shaped his own independent and pragmatic brand of guerrilla Marxism, even more violent than Mao Tse-tung's. In contrast with Castro, Che was not afraid to put his theories above politics. In 1965, at a time when Castro was trying to draw closer to Moscow, Che went barnstorming around Africa and Asia, drumming up support for a bloc of small socialist countries to counteract the "imperialism of large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana...