Word: tse-tung
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...banners that festooned the broad boulevards of Peking. There seemed to be no pattern to the shouted slogans, no rhythm to the dialectical drums. That Red China was undergoing a convulsion of historic proportion could not be doubted. Beneath the tremors, a few simple facts were apparent: - Mao Tse-tung is still his nation's leader and a vigorous one at that. - Mao's army is the chosen vehicle of a sweeping change he has decided to impose on his 750 million people. - Mao's anointed heir and chief instrument, Defense Minister Lin Piao,*59, has emerged...
Seventeen years in power have not won for Mao the ultimate goals he strives for. Yet, by all accounts, the Chinese people are sick of struggle and ready to settle for a less-than-glittering future; what they want is rest and contentment. Mao Tse-tung sees in Russia the seeds of his own downfall: a Red revolution that, thanks to that same contentment and economic success, shows signs of evolving into a bourgeois society. To an old fighter whose victories were forged in hardship, it is an utterly unacceptable prospect. Hence the current Chinese purge...
...been clear for weeks that China was heading for some sort of momentous crescendo, but no one knew exactly what to expect. Last week, as the impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution abruptly spilled out across the land, the nightmare of it all became chillingly clear. Mao Tse-tung aimed to blot out not only all traces of foreign influence, but to tear out China's own cultural and historical roots as well...
...hapless Chinese people caught in Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, there was no sign of relief from the political convulsions that gripped the nation. If anything, the purge was likely to grow more intensive. A new list of the top leaders announced by Radio Peking signaled the downfall of some, the rise of others. The highest riser: Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...dead; film clips of G.I.s in the jungle remind older West Germans of ruthless Nazi anti-guerrilla tactics in France and Russia, which were not only unsavory but unsuccessful. A current poll shows that 30% of Frenchmen think Lyndon Johnson is more dangerous than Communist China's Mao Tse-tung; 35% of West Germans favor ending the bombing of North Viet Nam. Says West German Vice Chancellor Erich Mende...