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...addition, several high party officials have recently come under attack for the first time. Hsieh Chen-hua, military commander of Shansi province, where Peach Mountain was first produced, was instructed by wall posters to "hang his head" and "beg the pardon" of the local population...
...continuing drought threatens to cut into this year's food production as well. To combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of rain since October (compared with an average annual rainfall of 15 inches), Taiyuan Radio broadcast instructions that "manpower, material and finance be first concentrated on conservation projects that can give benefits this spring." Workers hope to sink 30,000 new wells and install nearly 50,000 pumps in other wells before...
Army commanders in the field have paid only lip service to calls by civilian politicians in Peking for a return to party rule. In fact, in recent weeks civilian party chairmen have been ousted from the ruling revolutionary committees in Shantung, Shansi and Kweichow provinces. As a result, 27 of China's 29 provinces are now under what amounts to military rule. In Peking, where the military holds more than half of the 21 posts in the Politburo, army men preside over both the formulation and execution of policy...
Factional fighting still flares frequently in the provinces. In Shansi, troops have had to be called in from elsewhere to still rioting. In Tibet, small guerrilla clashes are said to be frequent, and there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu...
Once in China, White was given two suits, an overcoat, four pairs of underwear, ties, and Russian-made shoes that didn't fit. He traveled first-class to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi Province, where he spent a year studying Chinese. Then he went to Peking, where he enrolled at the Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung...