Word: pla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those PLA units intervening on Mao's side in the struggle are currently trying to calm everyone down. Some guard factories, others hand out leaflets urging opponents of Chairman Mao's "Cultural Revolution" to give up. Such passive support may be enough. If it isn't if the opposition becomes stronger, young men in the PLA may be ordered to quell resistance in their own villages, or even worse, among rebel PLA units...
Such clashes would severely test all the remarkable devices Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao have developed in the last seven years to tighten their political grip on the military. Since Lin became Defense Minister in 1959 he has tried to turn the PLA into a "Great School" of Maoist thought. He and Mao disapproved of the 1950's soldier, whose mind was directed toward tactics more than politics. The two of them could, with more justification than the Pentagon, use as their slogan for the 1960's: "Join the NEW Army." It is possible, from the scattered evidence...
...enlisted man would be about 21-years-old (in many cases a high school graduate) and might be stationed in his native province. Three years ago he cagerly registered for the draft along with many of his most ambitious classmates. The PLA, all students know, is a good way to the top. Older brothers returning from four years in the army--many of them new Party members--receive the good jobs in the local government and party committees...
...economy has not caught up to the pace of the schools, and thousands of young men and women are turned out yearly with skills that cannot yet be used. Many are sent out to work in the fields. Realizing this, young men flood the recruitment offices, and the PLA can be quite selective...
...pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch of midriff showing. Now that it is winter, the style is long and sometimes belted; the naked visibility gap exists only while...