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...that were not enough, it cautioned that the opponents of Mao Tse-tung "are not dead tigers but living tigers ready to bite and eat people." Despite the Chinese love of hyperbole, Sinologists around the world last week agreed that the significance of such language can hardly be exaggerated: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in trouble for months, is descending further and further into political and social chaos...
...much of the rest of China, the trouble in Wuhan stemmed from the resentment of the Wuhanese at the boisterous inva sions of Red Guards from Peking, who sweep in and try to take over everything from the city government to factory management in the name of Mao. By wall-poster accounting, no fewer than 350 people have been killed and 1,500 seriously wounded in clashes in Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier of the People...
Liberate Wuhan! Two weeks ago, Mao took direct action to try to bring Wuhan into line. He dispatched Hsieh Fu-chih, Deputy Premier and China's top cop, along with Wang Li, the party's propaganda chief, to see General Chen. The confrontation at Chen's military headquarters was hardly under way when the Million Heroes, arriving in hundreds of trucks and backed by Chen's soldiers, surrounded the building. In the ensuing confusion, Wang Li and Hsieh Fu-chih were seized by the mob and carried away. Back in Peking, wall posters blossomed overnight with...
Peking's response to the "abduction" of its envoys was immediate. Peking garrison troops loyal to Mao made a rare march through the streets of the capital, brandishing placards demanding...
...last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...