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...Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution. By 10 in the morning nearly 100,000 people had massed on the huge cobblestoned square, in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Suddenly, a scuffle broke out between demonstrators and militiamen guarding the monument; a student from Tsinghua University was badly bloodied. Some in the crowd tried to storm the Great Hall of the People on the northwest corner of the square; rallies were held on the steps and demands were made to file petitions with the party leadership. Later several cars were overturned and burned, and a fire engine rushing...
Earlier Richard Nixon had been invited to inspect the posters at Peking's Tsinghua University, indicating that Chairman Mao had endorsed and very likely started the campaign against Teng. But while the goal of the current campaign is clearly to cut Teng down to size, there was evidence that party officials were seeking to keep the struggle under control, lest it lead to the kind of chaos that swept China during the Cultural Revolution. There have not yet been any posters with incendiary slogans-such as ROOT OUT THE POISONOUS WEEDS and SWEEP AWAY MONSTERS AND DEMONS-aimed directly...
...Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the necessity to remain vigilant against "revisionist" ideas. Party officials take seriously the problem of retaining ideological purity and preventing the leadership from hardening into a "new class" of privileged bureaucrats. In recent weeks two high education officials, Tsinghua University Chief Lu Ping and Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, have been angrily accused by students of "revisionist" practices?meaning too much emphasis on technical excellence and not enough on ideology. Two weeks ago, in the traditional New Year's editorial, China's newspapers celebrated the achievements of the Cultural...
...fields green with bamboo shoots. At the crenelated, 2,400-year-old wall, Steenhoven was moved to comment: "I've seen Hadrian's Wall between Scotland and England, but it's just a pebble by comparison." Back in the capital, the visitors were taken to Tsinghua University, where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some of the students. Steenhoven, the Chrysler man, was invited to drive a truck that had been built almost entirely by the students. "I complimented them on the quality of the chrome, the bead...
...green light for reforming the Red Guards. Mao dispatched "worker-peasant, Mao Tse-tung-thought propaganda teams" to rebellious college campuses in Peking, Shanghai and Canton, which have been dominated by Red Guards. To dramatize the move, Mao sent a shipment of mangoes to the workers on Tsinghua University campus in Peking, where they were solemnly sniffed and touched, one commentary reverently reported, then preserved chemically as a "token of Chairman Mao's great attention to the working class." The gift was celebrated at campus rallies all over the country...