Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his frenetic witch hunting, Mao has won undisputed control of only four of Red China's 21 provinces, and only two (Peking and Shanghai) of its major cities. Now, since his supporters have begun fighting among themselves, he is unlikely to make much more progress. Peking wall posters last week told of a violent battle between rival Maoist groups in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders on North Viet Nam. According to the big character signs, 266 Maoists were killed and 1,000 wounded. Stability in Yunnan is vital to Mao because through it pass...
...message of Christ. The Rev. Addison J. Eastman, mission director of the National Council of Churches' Asia department, believes that many of the converts are inspired by "a personal faith, and real hope that the Christian church can provide a base from which to work for humane social progress...
...councillors in the new coalition grew up in this kind of politics and still act as if things had not changed. Yet, in taking their radical departure, they have also introduced a new form of politics--more issue-oriented, with a commtiment to public programs and demonstrable "progress...
...change was gradual until three to four years ago. Since then, sex education in the schools has moved forward at startling speed. Experts estimate that two years from now, 70% of the nation's schools will have broad, thorough sex-education programs. Progress has been so fast that it is creating problems: a shortage of qualified teachers and great uncertainty about what form instruction should take...
...cultural limits at all times. The cost of living on the border is high; you've got to be wealthy, and wealth here is measured in terms of how little you need to live. I do not need the luxuries this country uses to bait its people toward progress. I've learned to despise that word...