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...insensitivity to changes in student attitutdes over the last few years. When he first started teaching about China in the early '60s, he says, no one in America accepted any aspects of the Chinese revolution as positive, and he spent a good deal of time defending Mao Tse-tung. Then in the '60s he found himself having to bend over the other way, to avoid fostering the romanticism with which young radicals were beginning to view modern China. But last year, he says, students were much more skeptical, more conservative. Gibbs, however, didn't realize the change until...
...miles northeast of Peking. Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, traveling with him, started when he heard the strains of the Internationale break out on camp loudspeakers-in China, a sign that something important was to be announced. Before leaving, Schlesinger leaned over to Schecter and whispered the news of Mao Tse-tung's death. Reports Schecter: "I couldn't believe it. Then I looked at Schlesinger's face, and I knew it was true...
Great foreign leaders have always evoked strong emotions among Americans. Churchill and Gandhi, Hitler and Stalin-all had precise images, good or evil, and their deaths were cause for sorrow or celebration. With Mao Tse-tung, it is another story. In his lifetime, he was transformed in the public mind from archenemy to a more ambiguous figure who inspired neither hatred nor love, but uneasy admiration...
...pellets of instant wisdom scattered through Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung are by far the most celebrated of Mao's writings. Distributed in more than a billion copies, the so-called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic. It is also an inspiration to an assortment of would-be revolutionaries, guerrillas and new leftists around the world. Among the most famous quotations: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," and "Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against...
Died. Mao Tse-tung, 82, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the People's Republic of China since 1949; in Peking (see THE WORLD...