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There is still a wave of migrants, mostly Mexican-Americans, who invade Delano every summer for the grape harvest. Two years ago, they received from $1.10 to $1.20 per hour. Since the labor problems began, growers have raised wages...
...Guards get their orders mixed up, the reason is understandable: their instructions are often conflicting. For example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...
Home is the harvest, or soon will be, and there is a buoyancy in the air as autumn comes in with its blazing hues of foliage. Vacation time is past, but ahead are football weekends with all their tangy exuberance. And for many a family, now is the time for the weekend jaunt. Increasingly, the stop en route will be for good eating. Whether steered by word of mouth or by such guides to gastronomy as the Mobil Travel Guide (which this year sold more than 1,000,000 at $1.95 each), discriminating motorists are timing their trips to take...
Whoever was leading the Red Guard purge was getting nervous about the enthusiasm of his charges. Editorials continued to advise "reason" rather than violence in Red Guard attacks on the "capitalist-bourgeois monsters" and suggested repeatedly that "rectification and production" must go together. The fall harvest is just around the corner, and China's leaders are already advising the Red Guards that they must go to the farm for the good of the nation. But how they gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've ruled Peking...
...soldiers suddenly cascade into Southeast Asia as it did into Korea 16 years ago? Or does the uproar reflect nothing more than an internal struggle for party leadership? No one can be certain. Is the work of the Red Guards just a buildup to another announcement of a disastrous harvest? Elements of all these speculations seemed to be at work in Peking's purge...