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Educated in Hue, he started his career as a teacher, acquiring skills that he put to work when he joined the Communists in the 1930s and helped to create Ho Chi Minh's party youth organization. He learned his soldiering in Mao Tse-tung's military "academy" in Yeman from 1941 to 1943, then fought with the Chinese Communists until the end of World War II. From 1950 to 1961 he was chief political officer for Ho's army in Hanoi; in 1964 he was sent to South Viet Nam, where he had since directed, with considerable...
...Tse-tung's turbulent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had hardly begun before it boiled down to a bitter brawl for power between Mao and the more pragmatic Politburo faction led by President Liu Shao-chi. By last fall, Mao seemed to be getting the upper hand. Liu no longer attended official functions, and his name was dropped from the list of leaders of the People's Republic. Last week Mao finally made it official...
...Burma, the outburst started after Chinese embassy aides started passing out Mao Tse-tung badges and little Red bibles of Mao-think. The government banned both the badges and the bibles, and a crowd of Chinese students in Rangoon retaliated by taking their teachers as hostages and beating up newsmen. The Burmese struck back by sacking Chinese-owned shops. Burma's military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule...
Khrushchev takes credit for preserving world peace by refusing to supply Red China with nuclear armaments, and quotes from a 1959 conversation with Mao Tse-tung to demonstrate Chinese bellicosity. "Comrade Khrushchev," Mao said, "you have only to provoke the Americans to military action and I will give you as many people as you wish-100 divisions, 200 divisions, 1,000." Khrushchev goes on to tell how he explained to Mao that "with contemporary techniques, his divisions meant nothing, because one or two rockets would be enough to turn all the divisions into dust." Mao disagreed, Khrushchev reports, "obviously regarding...
Despite the Disorders. If any country ever seemed too irrational to possess weapons of mass destruction, it is Mao Tse-tung's China. In the nine months since the aging (73) Mao launched his xenophobic Cultural Revolution, China has lurched dangerously close to anarchy and hysteria. Government control has broken down in vast areas. Even Mao's own forces of Red Guards, workers and army troops have started fighting among themselves. The wall posters in Peking tell of daily bloody battles, riots and vandalism all across the stricken land. Red China's blast showed that, despite...