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From the careful questions raised by Soviet diplomats at receptions, it is clear that the Russians are worried about Watergate. That Brezhnev stuck to the original schedule for the summit, however, suggests that he believes Nixon will somehow ride out his seventh and most serious crisis. Quipped a British Kremlinologist last week: "Brezhnev really has quite an investment in Nixon's survival." The Russians have in fact developed an agreeable working relationship with the President and, of course, Henry Kissinger. It is doubtful if they could envision more complementary partners...
...more. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a party member's willingness to "integrate" himself with the masses by doing manual labor became a test of his ideological purity. Professors, government bureaucrats and white-collar workers all spent time, often punitive, in what came to be called "May Seventh schools," combination collective farms and political-indoctrination workshops that took their name from Mao's letter of May 7, 1966 to Lin Piao, then Minister of Defense. In the letter, Mao declared that "every field of work should be made into a great school for revolutionization." TlME...
Slim green poplar saplings line the dirt road to the Hsuan Wu May Seventh Cadre School, 30 miles from Peking along the banks of the Tsao Pai River. Orchards of apples, pears and peaches are neatly marked off, surrounded by a fresh red brick wall. Rice shoots are be ginning to sprout in well-irrigated fields, and the hogs are fattening. It seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style...
...difficult to compare May Seventh schools to anything in the West or, for that matter, in other Communist countries. Even the late Edgar Snow (The Long Revolution) found an Alice in Wonderland quality about the schools, calling them "reform schools for reformers." With memories of the Cultural Revolution fading fast, the schools have become institutionalized. No longer does a suspect cadre get sent to one for an indeterminate stay to learn to serve the people. The tensions, as well as the physical abuses that Mao himself lamented, have also ebbed. Today, May Seventh schools combine aspects of a Marxist religious...
...Marxist-Leninist level is quite low," explains Chao Kuei-wu, 46. "I need more practice in the fields to do more labor." Chao, who is married and has four children, receives his regular $35-a-month salary as the manager of a Peking canteen while attending the May Seventh school. He goes home once a month for four days to visit his family...