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...resistance he has met shows that freedom still flickers in Red China. As hard as Mao and Piao try, they will not be able to quench this smoking flax of freedom, for this idiotic brand of totalitarianism can never ever establish itself. IVAN SASSOON Calcutta, India...
...teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms and red arm bands. At a prearranged signal, several hundred Guards rushed in front of the stand to greet Mao. Mao accepted an arm band and pinned it on, as did his newly designated No. 2 man, Defense Minister Lin Piao. Chanted the Guards: "Chair man Mao, we shall crush the old world and build...
...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...
...slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held by Mao's chief speechwriter, Chen Pota...
...terror and the Stalin period of the Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China's. The raucous voices of the Red Guards could well be the death rattle of a revolution...