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Only Resting? Ironically, the most wanted leader of the terrorists is a Communist who was once awarded the Order of the British Empire. He is a Malay-born Chinese named Chin Peng. Son of a bicycle dealer who emigrated from China's Fukien province, Chin, 44, made the Crown's honors list for guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in World War II, led the Malay contingent in London's victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required...
...decade, but now is believed to be actively roaming Thailand's four southernmost provinces in league with the native Thai Reds, who operate farther north. In his own propaganda, Chin insists that "we are only resting in Thailand," but few Bangkok officials buy that. Says one: "Chin Peng worries us a little. But we will deal with...
Hardly anyone expected the Chinese bourgeoisie to rise again. But there was no doubt that the purge of "counterrevolutionary" Communists that swept Peking's Mayor Peng Chen from office (TIME, June 10) was spreading rapidly into the provinces. In southern Yunnan province and in neighboring Kweichow, editors of provincial party papers were under fire for spreading "revisionist poison." In Szechwan, a high-ranking official in the party's regional directorate was accused of having shamelessly attacked party cadres. "He has not yet made a confession," snarled the local radio, "but he will not be allowed to sneak...
Peking's People's Daily was not mentioning names last week, but its readers knew well enough who had been struck down: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, long considered one of the most powerful men in Red China and now the latest victim of Mao's purge of "antiparty and anti-Socialist revisionists" (TIME, May 13). Quick-witted and confident, Peng was known to Westerners as Peking's "smiling mayor" and had risen to become first secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party...
...sooner was the news out than some 3,000 cheering Chinese poured into Peking streets, carrying huge portraits of Chairman Mao, waving red flags, singing revolutionary songs, lighting firecrackers and banging cymbals and drums. As Peng himself ironically declared last year: "Whoever spreads pessimistic and defeatist views will be punished by history...