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...Premier Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets in the Maoist lexicon; and immediately the Red Guards responded. One version, in fact, had it that Tao Chu had been publicly humiliated in the streets of Peking...
...cultural Revolution is an nation-wide cram session in Maoist thought that has been largely an urban phenomenon for the first few months of its active life. According to the rules, everyone takes as much time off as possible to read and discuss Mao's writings, and all are encouraged to point our mistakes committed by their elders and leaders...
First news of the successful missile shot was flashed over Radio Peking in the dead of night. As if by Maoist magic, the Gate of Heavenly Peace was instantly floodlit, and a People's Daily "extra" was on the streets within the hour. Squads of People's Liberation Army soldiers goose-stepped through Peking, each man waving a tiny Red flag...
...sight while Mao looked around for a new youth organization. The story goes that the Chairman heard of some young people in a provincial high school who had organized themselves to study Mao's thought and demonstrate against bourgeois shop owners, Buddhists, and others slow to convert to Maoist ideology. Mao, it is said, was delighted with this spontaneous activity, gave it his blessing, and the Red Guards were born...
...compound the nightmare, the Red Guards were striking at many of the things that the Chinese have always respected. Buddhist shrines were defaced; schools were ordered closed for six months (to revise curriculums along purely Maoist lines). Respect for womanhood and religion was forcibly forgotten. Into British-controlled Hong Kong came eight victims: exhausted Franciscan nuns, one of whom died after being thrown onto a wheelbarrow and harshly trundled across the border...