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...interpreter, a bureaucrat who had been sent with his wife to the country to work with peasants. Their three children had been left behind, and the interpreter was now uncomplainingly separated even from his wife. That brief vignette spoke a volume about the dutiful Chinese character and the Maoist regime...
...proportion of the population living under Government control between 1964 and 1968. The depopulation of the countryside struck directly at the strength and potential appeal of the Viet Cong. For ten years the Viet Cong has waged a rural revolution against the Central Government, with the good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities. The "first outstanding feature...of People's Revolutionary War, as developed by Mao Tse-tung and refined by the North Vietnamese in the two Indochina wars." Sir Robert Thompson argued in a recent issue...
...missionary movement was swept aside by a larger, more militant native movement, which combined raw terror with a renascent Chinese nationalism. In the process, China has been transformed into a new society whose ideology and structure would defy reconciliation with the U.S. -unless the U.S. too became a Maoist-style revolutionary society. Still, the old legacy of American friendship toward China, combined with a large measure of Yankee curiosity, undoubtedly helped account for the overwhelming approval with which the American people welcomed Nixon's new policy toward Peking...
...peasant, the city worker rises early-usually by 6:30. More often than not, he lives within a few minutes' bicycle ride of his factory. The workday begins at 7:30, not at the assembly line but in the factory recreation hall, with a study session on Maoist thought. Working conditions are adequate: safety regulations spell out the proper procedures for operating machinery, for instance, but set down few guidelines for personal safety. Factories pay compensation, however, for job-caused injuries or death. Foremen tend to be chosen mainly for their job expertise, though political correctness remains important...
...suggested he read the account by Eric Gordon in Harper's, a Maoist who had returned from China. But he is disillusioned, says Mr. Nwafor. Precisely, but why? (After all, he spent four years working there (and knew the language: does Mr. Nwafor?), and while he did not receive a farewell banquet ("as reported in the major Peking daily..."--preening ass!) he did spend two years under house arrest...