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Germany's Willie Holdorf pulled a major upset in the Olympics yesterday, beating Nationalist China's C.K. Yang to win the decathlon gold medal...
...Yang, silver medalist behind Rafer Johnson in 1960, was considered a certain winner in the two-day event. But Holdorf took the lead in the first event, and held on through both days of competition...
Latest victims were two widely respected intellectuals, Central Committee Member Yang Hsien-chen, party the oretician and former president of the elite Higher Party School, and Historian (and onetime English professor) Chou Ku-cheng, whose General History of China has been a standard work for nearly 30 years. Their crime was pure heresy: contradicting Mao's infallible doctrine that "everything tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept...
According to Yang, the one-into-two doctrine is backwards, suggesting that the Moscow-Peking split is therefore reparable. "The law of the development of things is that two merge into one," he said in a series of lectures and articles that were widely read by party intellectuals. "All opposing social forces are merging. To study dialectics is to learn the capability of linking two opposite ideologies into...
...probability, the criticism was no life-or-death matter for Yang or Chou. But disgrace was doom enough for the pair since it presumably means they will publish no more books and teach no more classes. Which might go to prove their point that even the class struggle has its limits...