Sudden Madness In Old China Throws Nation Into Turmoil
A historical review describes the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as Red Guards and others sweep through cities. They attack old customs, culture, and ideas, wreck temples and books, humiliate adults, and threaten production and governance under Lin Piao and Mao Zedong. The piece notes mass rallies, purges, and the dangerous potential for a backlash or power struggle within the Communist leadership.
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Nazi
Germany
Lin Piao
Red Guard
Mao Tze-tung
Eek
Red Guards
Lin
People's Daily
Peking
People’s Daily
Mao
Young Communist League
All-China Student Federation
Young Pioneers
Peking City
National Party
Li Hsuch-feng
Pen Chen
Peking Party Committee
Peking University
Lu Ping
Communist Party Central Committee
Central Committee
China Youth Daily
Mao Tsetung
Canton
Red
New China News Agency
Chinese Communist Party
Politburo
Mao Tse-tung
Red China
Eastfoto
New York
Jeader
Tienanmen
Mie
Fifth Marine Division Fights Near Demilitarized Zone
Washington AP report details renewed combat by the reactivated 5th Marine Division in Vietnam. Marines of 1st Battalion 26th Regiment fought near a fortified Gia Binh village, with 139 enemy dead reported and heavy casualties on both sides. The unit recalls the 1945 Iwo Jima intensity.
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Washington
5Th Marine Division
Tow Jima
26Th Regiment
Gia Binh
Sth Division
Iwo Jima
5Th Division
Mt. Suribachi
South Korea
25Th Regiment
Tiger Division
Qui
Nhon
U. S
101St Airborne Division
Tuy Hoa
Saigon
Gia Binh Falls to U S Marines in four day assault
Gia Binh fell to U S Marines after four days of air and ground assault near the Demilitarized Zone. Marine operations aimed to counter Hanoi's 324B division with Phantoms and B 52 bombers supporting ground troops.
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Gia Binh
U.S. Marines
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
An Ninh
Guam
Phantoms
Mekong River
Welfare March Planned in Hartford Next Week
New Haven AP report says a welfare rights march is planned for next Tuesday in Hartford with protesters from New Haven Danbury Middletown New Britain Waterbury and Hartford. Ten were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in a clash outside the welfare office. Louise Harris of the New Haven CORE urged a meeting with Welfare Commissioner Shapiro and letters to Gov Dempsey and Sen Relihan seeking joint committee talks.
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New Haven
Hartford
State Welfare
Louise Harris
Congress of Racial Equality
Bernard Shapiro
Harris
John Dempsey
John J. Relihan
Bridgeport
Public Welfare and Humane Institutions Committee
Relihan
Senate
Danbury
Middletown
New Britain
Waterbury
Thousands homeless as Mekong Delta floods worsen
More than 4,000 people were left homeless by rising Mekong Delta floods near the Cambodian border. U.S. aircraft brought emergency relief as rains from Laos threaten to raise flood levels into next week. Over 20,000 may evacuate. crops and communications disrupted. Saigon area also flooded.
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Saigon
Mekong
Cambodia
Loos
South China Sea
U.S
Coral Sea
North Viet Nam
da Nang
Hanoi
North
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Laosa
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Norodom Sihanouk
Soviet Union
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
New ‘Welfare
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