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...tentatively coming to terms with that reality. One speaks of "a kind of flexible, kaleidoscopic battleground," another of eventual triumph "through the accumulation of many small victories." A Politburo member writing under the pen name of Cuu Long, meaning "nine dragons," has gone so far as to redefine Mao's Phase Three as "the phase of guerrilla warfare coupled with concentrated combat." To some well-placed Western experts, that could be translated as preparation for a retreat to the hit-and-hide tactics of the Communist guerrilla-without loss of face or too obvious a break with Mao-faith...
...Guards have convulsed China for four months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000,000 of the Red Guard youth who have been breaking windows and heads, renaming streets and chanting the lit any of Mao Tse-tung's narrow road to Socialist salvation. Over 100,000 of the Guards had the sniffles, or something more serious, from wearing only Mao-think as a muffler. No more monster rallies of the millions in open squares were possible until the warmth of spring...
...Characters. Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one hand and President Liu Shao-chi and Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping on the other. The fissures apparently have regional roots. So long as the Red Guard rampages affected only national interests or the artifacts of the past, no one much cared. But when local property and the jobs of local party functionaries were threatened, resistance rose...
Sharp and bloody clashes between anti-Mao army units and pro-Mao Red Guards have been confirmed in half a dozen provinces. While pro-Mao Red Guards continue to flood Peking with "big character" posters denouncing Liu and Teng, some anti-Lin posters have mysteriously begun appearing. One version of the struggle has it that Lin in fact wants all the Red Guards out of Peking except the ones he can count on; he has urged the latter, privately, to stick around. The indisputable fact is that, for all the railings of the Guards against them, both Liu and Teng...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...