Word: maoists
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...massacre was a direct affront to the liberal government of Peru's President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Ever since Belaúnde's election in 1980, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a shadowy group of self-styled Maoist guerrillas, has tyrannized the area around the picturesque Andean town of Ayacucho, some 350 miles southeast of Lima. Under the pretext of defying capitalism and central authority, the insurgents have attacked isolated police stations and assassinated villagers suspected of informing against them. In January, Belaúnde sent a 3,500-man task force to Ayacucho to deter...
...economic formula is the "responsibility system" approved last September by the congress of the Communist Party, which meets periodically to decide government policy. Many of the old Maoist economic shibboleths, including the idea that incentives should not be used to promote productivity, have been cast aside. Instead, in keeping with Deng's dictum that "a cat, whether black or white, is a good one as long as it catches mice," the government has turned to such capitalistic devices as bonuses, commissions and competition to rejuvenate China's sluggish economy...
Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...
...book's lack of direct criticism of the society which allowed such cruelty may be as much a product of Liang's caution after his past troubles as of his belief in communist society. Even his father, always a devoted Maoist, tells him at one point to "never give your opinion on anything...even if you're asked directly. "Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit...
...After Mao Tse-tung's death in late 1976, Geng, 73, supported then Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was later purged, in arresting the so-called Gang of Four. His appointment as Defense Minister early last year was seen at the time as a compromise choice between the Maoist generals and Deng's supporters in the military. The new Defense Minister is Zhang Aiping, 72, a general who has headed the Scientific and Technological Commission for National Defense. One of Deng's most trusted men in the military establishment, he is an ardent advocate of modernizing...