Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered all army units "engaged in political work" to return to their barracks no later than Feb. 20. Peking's wall posters and newspapers warned of the dangers of an "armed palace coup" and hinted darkly that some army units may not be totally loyal to the Mao line. The return to barracks could provide Lin & Co. with an opportunity to refresh the army's memory on matters of Mao-think...
...Dogs or Russians. In Peking, thousands of Chinese ringed the Soviet embassy with a wall of hate. Any Russian, or presumed friend of a Russian, who approached was instantly plastered with spit, stones and invective. At night, bonfires on the embassy grounds cast tortured shadows of Soviet leaders hanged in effigy-Kosygin included. The 170 Russians who remained in the embassy were supplied with vodka and beer, bread and soup sent via air from Moscow and then carried in by East European and even Western diplomats who daily braved the Red Guard gauntlet. The Russians even filled their swimming pool...
Said Chou: "Not all Red Guard activities are necessarily just and proper." He ought to know. He himself was once the victim of wall poster slander...
Meanwhile, the wall posters of Peking kept up their continuous denunciations of once venerated Red Chinese notables. Latest targets of abuse: Old Warriors Chu Teh, 81, and Ho Lung, 70, Veterans of the Long March and (with Lin Piao) leaders of the Eighth Route Army during China's civil war. Both were charged with "counterrevolutionary activity." If men of such formidable stature are indeed lining up against Mao, it is clear that the battle for Red China is far from over...
Rufus Lumry's mighty heave won the distance test. His missile crashed into the far wall, dead center, four feet above the fireplace. Piel, the head judge, awarded him an "appropriate prize" -- typewriter paper...