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With their aid, Mao created the Red Guards to undercut his opponents...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...
...preparation, Mao in May closed China's schools. Actually, the students kept on attending classes, but they studied only one subject: Mao's thought. With youth behind him, Mao was able to confront the Party Central Committee in early August with an ultimatum: vote for me, or else...
Conflicting Signs. A trademark of the Red Guards has become the "big-character" wall posters, which are old newspapers on which Guards proclaim new attacks on "revisionists," denounce party members for un-Mao-like behavior, and record news of Guard activities in other cities...
...past few days, the posters have become symptomatic of the chaos in China's cities. Some criticize the Red Guards. Others report clashes of Guards with workers and peasants. Some even demanded that Mao, who so far has let Lin do the talking at Red Guard rallies, take a greater role in the swirling events...