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Calm Contrast. The conservative victory was in part due to the threat of that chaos, as exemplified by the demonic doings of Red China's Mao Tse-tung and his rampaging Red Guards. Japan had been moving closer to China during recent years, but most Japanese were appalled and repelled by the events of the past several months. It was in this mood that they voted, and their votes were as much against the pro-Peking direction of the Japanese Socialist Party as they were for the conservatism of Sato. Japan feels that it is staring over the brink...
Back to School. If true, it was as clear a warning as the Kremlin could deliver to Mao Tse-tung to keep his revolutionaries occupied with internal Chinese matters. Western observers believe that it is precisely because Mao is having trouble gaining the upper hand at home that he has so strongly rallied the Chinese against Russia-a trick as old as tyranny. Within China, though the swirl of disorder seemed to abate temporarily, opposing factions busily jockeyed about to win both minds and territory. Mao's increasing dependence on military force illustrated his conviction that "rifles make...
Because he fears more disturbances-and because neither China's trains nor its depleted stock of foodstuffs could stand the strain-Mao canceled all Chinese celebrations of the Lunar New Year this week. It was the first such cancellation in 5,000 years of Chinese history, an act roughly equivalent to calling off Christmas...
...surprise move, Mao also ordered all Chinese youth back to school on Feb. 9, when the nation's schools will reopen for the first time since the students were turned loose to play Red Guards last summer. If China's youth do indeed give up guardsmanship, much of the nation's disorder will vanish overnight-but so would Mao's prime weapon until now in the power struggle. Equally curious, China's official news agencies, in a move that was new in the struggle, all last week urged tolerance for Mao's enemies...
...through its paces, she peered through her thick-lensed glasses, smiled frozenly through buck teeth and applauded energetically. Thus last week, on film released by Peking and shown on Hong Kong TV, the world outside Red China got a rare glimpse of Chiang Ching, 52, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Red China's First Lady, and the Cultural Revolution's public fury...