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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 2, 1967
Plagued Red China starts 19th year
HONG KONG —(UPI)— The Communist Chinese regime marked its 18th anniversary with a massive rally in Peking Sunday but the festivities were marred by violence on the country's borders and new dissension and turmoil within party ranks.
The rally in Peking and de-
velopments elsewhere combined to underscore the internal and
external threats to Mao Tsetung's government as it embarks
today on its 19th year of rule.
In Jakarta, an Indonesian mob sacked the Chinese embassy, severely beating nine Chinese diplomats and destroying embassy property.
At the same time Indian troops guarding the tiny Himalayan protectorate of Sikkim fought a daylong artillery and mortar battle with Chinese border troops.
At the national day rally in Peking, Soviet and East European diplomats stormed off the rostrum
after Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao denounced the Kremlin's brand of communism.
The absence of several highranking Chinese officials from the rostrum pointed up the power struggle within the government.
The missing Chinese officials have been denounced but not eliminated by Mao's supporters. Peking Radio failed to mention them in its accounts of the rally and reports from persons in Peking said the officials were not present.
Lin Piao hinted in a speech to the hundreds of thousands of Chinese at the rally that some of the leaders of the anti-Mao movement have been destroyed.
"Under the leadership of Chairman Mao and the central committee, the nation's revolutionary masses have smashed the headquarters of the bourgeoisie to nothing." Lin declared.
of top party persons" were still in power and opposing Mao. He urged the nation to support efforts to "overthrow" the remaining anti-Maoists.
Mao made one of his rare public appearances to attend the rally, but he did not speak.
At least three Americans were on the rostrum. They were Anna Louise Strong, an 81-year-old writer from California; Robert Williams, a former official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Monroe, S.C.; and Williams' wife.
Miss Strong has lived in China for many years, Williams and his wife defected to China via Cuba in July 1966.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The Supreme Court opens an historic term today with the swearing in of the first Negro justice in its 178-year history, former U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall.
The 59-year-old Marshall, great-grandson of a slave, for the second time takes the federal judicial oath to "do equal right to the poor and the rich." He took the same oath when he became a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in 1961.
Marshall, who is to occupy the chambers of retired Justice Tom C. Clark whom he succeeds, took the constitutional cath of office September 1 in a private cere-
money and has been at work since then.
Probably none of the 95 justices who have preceded Marshall on the Supreme Court bench had more experience as an advocate before it. Prior to his judicial service in New York, he was a renowned civil rights lawyer and won 29 Supreme Court decisions, including the landmark school desegregation ruling of 1954.
As soon as today's formalities are over, the court will go into private conference on the small mountain of appeals that have come in during its summer recess.
Mount Greyleoch—3,491 feet—is the highest point in Massachusetts.
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