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Liu Shao-chi. Those who demanded of the people that they work for love of the collective are dismissed as scabs and anarchists. Those who stuck to their cynical guns and said "pay a man what he is worth" are vindicated. The revolu- tionary light is burning low, burning all the lower as the masses peruse the Peof ple's Daily of February 22 showing thể Chairman smiling at Nixon. Of course, they may quote the Chinese proverb If one wants to capture a gang of bandits, first capture the head bandit," but the shock of that photograph in China fust have been as great as it was to foreign Maoists, who still cannot understand that Mao should have received Nixon, the former Macarthyite witch-hunter and professional anti-communist.
Of course, this zig may prove to be as temporary as the last zag. Toflay's an- archist and leftist opportunitift may be tomorrow's close comrade infarms. But one factor is unchangeable: the ticking of the clock. Every twist and turn takes time, and takes Mao nearer to the moment when as he put it to the late Edgar Snow
he must meet his God. This time the line has gone unprecedent- ly far to the right and towards an offi- cial recognition that man is ultimately selfish.
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Hongkong Students: Finding an Ideology
Hongkong: Chairman Mao Tse-tung nos- talgically recalled the May 4. (1919) Movement in one of his poems:
Who may the ruler of the universe
bel
I have visited these regions of old, And recalled the days when ambi-
tions ran high.
In the company of fellow students, All youngsters in the prime of life, Spurred on by the vitality of youth, We bared our heart's desire.
Today the Hongkong student move- ment is trying, perhaps, to put Mao's poem into practice by engaging in a se- rious attempt to learn about China. Youthful vitality is being expressed in a wide range of cultural and ideological debates and in social and political activi- tics.
Before 1970, theory was the stu- dents' main tool: agitation for structural
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Unlike the May 4 Movement which mobilised 10 million students and work- ers against various aspects of an archaic society, the Hongkong student move- ment has four different factions: the na- tionalists, the socialists, the anarchists and the reformists. "A single identifica- tion has yet to be realised at this period Perhaps Mao believes that he will live of philosophic struggle," says one stu- for another 10 years, fong enough any-dent leader at the Chinese University. way to right the balance again, long . enough to re-enthuse the idealists. Per- haps he is still convinced that he can yet change "objective realitics" and so transform the masses that they will be ready to bear his revolution unsullied onto future generations and that he can again choose a successor who will know when he must "sdize the moment." But somehow the doubts are creeping in; there was something final about the Nixon-Mao photograph. Mao was smil- ing at Nixon, whose planes were at that moment bombing Vietnam. Nixon was smiling at Map, whose party was busily accepting the doctrine that a man not only wants the wages he earns and some room for property owning, but that it is dangerously wrong to deny these things to him. Fefhaps Malraux was right.
Alternatively, the new phase may be a measure of Mao's real greatness, of an old man's ability still to see reality and to come to terms with it. For Mao has already met his God. As he said in his story The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains: "We must persevere and work unceasingly, and we, too, will tough God's heart. Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people." And Mao's God, the masses, have proved unyielding.
MARCH 11, 1972 -
FEE Rere's
Day of the Generals
BY A CORRESPONDENT
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Karachi: President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto struck dramatically this week with a mini-coup which took Pakistan as well as the world by surprise. In an unsche- duled broadcast to the nation he an- nounced he had "accepted the resigna- tions" of the army chief, General Gul Hassan, and the air force chief, Air Mar- shal Rahim Khan, along with those of six other top air force officers. Earlier that day, army and police units had in nocuously mounted guard over the radio station, the television centre and other vital installations. The two service chiefs reportedly were placed under arrest and into the chairs moved General Tikka Khan and Air Marshal Zafar Chowdhury.
The elevation of superhawk Tikka Khan is bound to prove controversial, His rugress assault on the Bangalees bast year and the earlier violent suppes- sion of a separatist movement among The Bughti tribe in Baluchistan
had
reform and self-criticism at the Univer- sity of Hongkong, Chu Hoi College and Baptist College was distant phraseology indeed. Only academic questions con- cerning the nature of a university and of the "student as a social animal" were raised.
Credit was duly given to the Hong-' kong Government for putting students' theories into practice. After the 1967 riots, the Government set up the Youth Forum and launched students on sum- mer work projects; sometimes they were used to replace striking busmen and garbage disposal workers.
Joseph Luk, President of the Univer- sity of Hongkong Student Union, re- calls: "For the first time, in the summer of 1967, we came together and realised our identity as a separate student group, as different and opposed to the older generations."
The campaign to have Chinese desig- nated an official language had its first airing at the Student-Research Meeting, organised by the Hongkong Federation of Students in December 1966. The bilingual meeting, monitored by an in-' stant translation system, suggested that English and Chinese be used in legal and political workings of government. "The campaign is to satisfy the practical needs of the local people," says its
won him international notoriety. But among the army brass he is a hero, in sharp contrast to the ousted Gul Hassan who is widely held responsible for Pakis- tan's recent military defcay at the hands of India. Tikka Khan is an ardent na- tionalist and a devoted Muslim with a reputation for scrupulous honesty. He also is an excellent soldier who trounced the Indian Army in the Rann of Kutch in 1965.
What makes the dismissals surprising is that both Gul Hassan and Rahim Khan are longtime personal friends of Bhutto. Besides, they were instrumental in stopping Gen. Yahya Khan and his coterie of generals from staging a palace coup after the December war with India in order to continue in power and pre- vent Bhutto from taking over. However, Rahim Khan is a strong man and had recently given the impression that he was in the wings waiting for Bhutto to make a false move. He reportedly had refused te cooperate with the judicial commis- h Bhutto set up to investigate the mildary debacle what was once this country's east wing.
Despite rumours to the contrary,
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