Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boot its errors almost as far as its successes. There was the Bay of Pigs. CIA failed to interpret properly the consistent East German warnings that preceded the Berlin Wall. The agency made a foolish attempt to bribe security police in Singapore...
...This horrendous fact was reported last week, over the chop mark of Mrs. Mao's own purge committee, as proof that the Maoists' struggle to overcome the enemies of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is far from won. "They disdainfully refuse to admit their guilt," said the wall posters at the People's University in Peking. "We still have a long way to go before eliminating them...
...Wrong Tendencies." Radio reports intercepted in India confirmed the fact of massive army uprisings in Tibet, where Red Chinese Army Commander Chang Kuo-hua reportedly kicked out the Red Guards and laid siege to government installations. Peking wall posters told of fighting in the high Himalayan redoubt that left 100 or more dead. Chang, who commanded the 100,000 Chinese troops that seized Tibet in 1951 and who later directed the invasion of India, declared martial law and sat back to await the arrival of three army divisions said to have been dispatched from China proper to "crush the revisionists...
...calling for a new revolution seems to have been his failure to understand the forces he was unleashing and the length to which they would go either to propagate or oppose his "thought." So far, Mao claims control in only five of China's 21 provinces; a wall poster quoted Mrs. Mao as admitting that even Peking itself is not entirely subjugated (fully ten of the city's districts are unsafe for Maoism). The rest of the capital, indeed much of the country, remains in chaos. Although many Red Guards last week were leaving for home and school...
...Steel, which surprised Wall Street last fall by raising its dividend from 50? to 60?, was not being overconfident after all: even though the company's profits slipped 11% to $249 million for all of 1966, earnings rebounded 22% in the fourth quarter. "About what we expected," smiled Chairman Roger Blough, who saw the surge as a sign that the industry's major sales problem-the big steel inventories built up by its customers during 1965-had about run its course...