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...Public Security in the mid-'60s he played an ambiguous role in the Cultural Revolution. He clashed with army commanders opposed to Red Guard excesses, then he violently quelled the Red Guard activists in Peking. Hsieh thus made enemies on both sides but survived them to remain a Maoist in good standing...
...turned out, Feltrinelli's inept sabotage attempt probably did a disservice to his Maoist sympathizers. The scandal over his misbegotten effort will presumably lend new appeal to the law-and-order campaign of Italy's neo-fascist party in the current election campaign...
Shortly after making off with Nogrette, the kidnapers telephoned the far-leftist paper La Cause du Peuple, edited by French Author Jean-Paul Sartre, and identified themselves as members of the NouveUe Resistance Populaire, one of a dozen-odd clandestine "Maoist" groups operating in Paris. They declared that Nogrette had been taken as reprisal for the death at the Renault plant late last month of Maoist Demonstrator René-Pierre Overney, 23. Overney, fired by Renault for political agitation, was shot by the plant's chief of security, Jean-Antoine Tramoni. 25. when he and other Maoists charged...
...scars of the Cultural Revolution are still visible in Nanking. The university, unlike those in Shanghai and Peking, is still not operating. But in the streets swarms of people, carts and children are building, hauling -and resolutely following the Maoist line. On the way to a commune on the outskirts of the city, I passed the new Nanking Iron and Steel Works, four-story red-brick apartment blocks near completion, and a whole series of water-conservation projects. Teams of men sang as they hefted a huge stone with ropes and tamped the earth into place. Women with bamboo baskets...
...self-defense. The great mile-long Nanking Bridge-100,000 tons of Chinese-made steel completed in 1968 after eight years of work to provide a railroad link over the Yangtze River between North and South China-is a national shrine and a political rallying point for the Maoist line. It is storied in song and film and pictured on thermos flasks, postcards, beer bottles, matchboxes and cake cartons. On either side, the approach roadway is two miles long; at each end of the span rise two 70-ft. rose-colored towers. An exhibition hall in one of the bridge...