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...calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed it to rubble. That particular act of barbarism, as Peking saw it, "marks a great victory for the thought of Mao Tse-tung...
...over the abandoned pineapple estate in southern Malaysia, 50 miles from Singapore, police moved in and took up positions among the trees. Thus ensconced, they witnessed a strange rite. On an open-air stage, blue-clad men and women in their 20s sang, recited the sayings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and performed acrobatic dance versions of his most intrepid deeds before a rapt audience of other youths. The police waited until the performance had ended, then moved in quickly and arrested 123 performers and members of the audience. The pineapple estate was a clandestine Communist Party school where young...
...clashes in Canton broke out at Sun Yat-sen University, where students are bitterly divided into radical and conservative groups. As with most factions elsewhere in China, their enmities are based less on ideology (both groups use names connecting them with the Cultural Revolution) or loyalty to Chairman Mao Tse-tung (both idolize him) than on matters of self-interest. The conservatives want to get on with school and closer to prestige jobs, while the hotheaded radicals enjoy the disruptions that keep them from being reassigned to farmwork...
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...Bandwagon. Che cultists reverently equate him with such other leftist heroes as Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...