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...quarantine in Peking has its counterpart in the carefully guided official tours by which the Maoist authorities have shrunk the "immense and varied universe" of China. Westerners are limited to the dozen or so cities, factories, communes and schools whose reason for being seems to be the welcoming of friendly travelers. Leys takes the tour, finds that aside from a few carefully preserved historical monuments, China's cultural treasures have been sealed off behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments...
...backed by Mao called for local economic independence. Teng also argued for higher wages and other incentives "for certain workers" and a rise in living standards. "If there are not enough vegetables and meat," he asked, "how can industry function properly?" Striking at the heart of Maoist doctrine, he declared that "it is wrong to practice egalitarianism, denying existing differences and refusing remuneration according to the work done...
...West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named Hissène Habré, who demanded a ransom that included 80 tons of arms and ammunition in return for the release of his hostage. But France could not supply the arms without affronting the government of Chad President N'Garta Tombalbaye and losing influence throughout Africa...
Interservice Rivalries. To assess the course of the sputtering war, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter traveled 1,400 miles through Thailand's most troubled provinces. So far, he reports, the 9,000 to 12,000 guerrillas of the Maoist-leaning Communist Party of Thailand have been confined to border regions. According to government estimates, the Communists control only 100 villages with a total population of 75,000. But nearly 10% of Thailand's 45 million people live in "contested" regions, many of them ruled by the government during the day and by the guerrillas at night. Twenty-eight...
...more flexible than the radicals, more concerned with practical results than the way the results are achieved. The radicals, in contrast, believe with a religious zeal in the need for ideological purity. They think that China can be transformed only if its people are imbued with the Maoist doctrines of self-sacrifice...