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...clang of cymbals and drums, China plunged into a pandemonium of celebrations. From humid, semitropical Yunnan to frigid Heilungkiang, millions of Chinese paraded through cities and towns, waving the little red books of Mao Tse-tung's quotations and chanting "Long life to Chairman Mao!" Many carried sunflowers as symbols of loyalty to a man whom his followers revere as "the red sun in our hearts." The occasion was, according to its official title, "The Ninth National Congress of the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China...
More than 1,000 Nagas are known to have trekked 300 miles through Burma to China's Yunnan province for arms, indoctrination and training. Another 1,000 have been intercepted by Indian troops and turned back. Friendly Nagas in Burma sometimes aid the would-be rebels in traveling to China, but others have beheaded at least three Naga rebels and presented their severed heads to Indian officials as signs of good will. Some 300 China-trained Nagas have already returned to Nagaland, and the rest are due to infiltrate back by November...
Reports are also trickling out of fighting in a dozen other provinces, including Yunnan, Szechwan, Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia. Some of the worst fighting has been in Canton, Kwang-tung's capital and the south's largest city (pop. 2,500,000), where several hundred have been killed in clashes centering on the downtown Pearl River bridge. The victims found in the Pearl last week were probably Cantonese...
...also having difficulty in pulling the nation as a whole back from the precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...provinces, and only two (Peking and Shanghai) of its major cities. Now, since his supporters have begun fighting among themselves, he is unlikely to make much more progress. Peking wall posters last week told of a violent battle between rival Maoist groups in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders on North Viet Nam. According to the big character signs, 266 Maoists were killed and 1,000 wounded. Stability in Yunnan is vital to Mao because through it pass the railroad lines that carry supplies to Hanoi...