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Monday, December 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Echoes of Revolt Returning to China
By DENNIS BLOODWORTH
SINGAPORE—The deceptive Chinese screen of social harmony that Peking displays to the outside world has been rudely torn aside to reveal the sly struggle between moderate and Maoist behind it, and some alarmists are now predicting a second phase of the cultural revolution which this time could be Premier Chun En-Lai.
Chairman Mao launched the first phase of that tumultuous upheaval in the mid-sixties as a popular uprising of the masses against an entrenched bureaucracy accused of favoring plodding, pragmatic revisionism over quick-change Communist revolution. "Rebellion is justified," Mao told the mob, and the "little generals" of the Red Guards stormed out of the schools and into the streets to spearhead change. The existing party zen administration and consign its leaders to the compost-beam of justice.
THE CHAMPIONS of the rebels were the left-wing Shanghai Clique around the island, and they also held their shield was the army under Lin Piao, the defense minister and Mao's close comrade-in-arms, and by the time they had overthrown Fang Yu in a country that led to near-carsh.
order was restored, but in October this year ominous echoes of the jargon of those convulsive days were again carried on the wind of China's wordy propaganda. In January, one of its justifications, "one big provincial radio station told its vast captive audience, and elsewhere students who rebelled against the educational system in Shanghai were praised as 'young generalists' who had been taken for granted." One Peking newspaper attacked "bourgeois careerists and conspirators" who "had stolen party and state power" and then accused honest Communists of "befit factionalism," and the People's Daily published an article headed: "You Must Know the Ominous Spirit To Go Against the Tide."
This is the language of the emittered entremiers who have watched Chou En-lai patiently rebuild the bureaucratic framework of China, restore to office
Committee Sets Dates, Policies In Exec Search
The search committee for the executive vice chancellor yesterday discussed procedures for the search and set dates for future meetings, said Raymond Nichols, chancellor emeritus and chairman of the committee.
Nichols said the committee wouldn't release names of those nominated for the position. He said it would be unfair to those who weren't selected if their names were
He said those nominations already made by the University community wouldn't be discussed by the committee until all the nominations are received. The deadline for the nominations is Dec. 20.
Nichols said the committee was satisfied with the response from the faculty who have completed the course.
The committee is to recommend four names to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes by Jan. 10. Dykes said he hoped to select a vice chancellor by Feb. 1.
cadres sacked by the rebels during the cultural revolution, send the Red Guards back to school, and put into effect moderate government. They were not than with cleaning up the moss they left.
IT IS TRUE that at the tenth party congress in August a tongue-in-cheek Chook En-lai urged on all the virtue of "going against the tide," but the phrase has as much power as it can. It is the rest of the imperfect world accords to the word democracy, and in November two
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While the Red Flag upheld the leadership of the party and urged those who mistakenly opposed the official line to correct their fault, for they should only go against errorous leaders, as if that leader is not always in the hands of the majority," and that "no matter how big the adverse current there will be those who stand out and rebel against it." Using the same ambitious phraseology, one was defending the "tide" or policy of the party by using the word "lesser," and while one failed to mention revisionism at all the other damned it 11 times.
The status of the Red Flag, the theoretical journal of the Chinese Communist Party, has meanwhile been challenged by the appearance of a similar publication called Study and Criticism which first appeared in September in Shanghai, the heart of the Chinese government through whose press, the chairman fired the first sho in the cultural revolution in 1965.
IN RECENT WEEKS Study and Criticism has in turn fired the first shots in a series of aggressive left-wing campaigns, whose themes have been taken up by leading Chinese propaganda organs elsewhere, including "Invasion" urban militia to safeguard the "Dictatorship of the Masses," Appearing under the heading, "The Paris Commune and The Workers' Armament," this at once evoked memories of turbulent days during the cultural revolution, when the masses were exhorted "seize power, seize the city," setting up a "Shanghai commune" on the Paris model and establishing mob rule.
The wrangle over policy between moderate and Maori, realist and revolutionary, touches both the young and old, exposing the former to senior administrators who discriminate against the young by promoting cadres according to their seniority, favoring older, more conservative men shy of change while younger people are in the class struggle. The People's Daily has denounced these prejudices as a rejection of all the "new-born forces and new-born things" that sprang from the Red Guards' masses during Mao's cultural revolution.
THE UNDERLYING PROPOSITION that China is once more falling into the arthritic hands of narrow-minded party bureaucrats, who are concerned only with preserving the status quo and maintaining peace and quiet in their own backyard, is thrown into relief by the current campaign against Confucius.
The Chinese sage is depicted as a pernicious elistist who fought to preserve a
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feudalistic society ruled by a slave-owning aristocracy, and to this end called back to office old men who had already retired. By 1560 China was divided into the first emperor of China, is lauded as a progressive element who united China under one centralized government by ruthlessly dispossessing its feudal kings and allowing their country into 36 provinicial prefectures.
This oblique, Mao's-eye view of history can easily be read as a condemnation of Chou En-lai himself for recreating the established bureaucracy and bringing disgraced cadres back to office in order to do it. However, the present left-wing campaign is almost certainly not final assault; it is an attempt, but unrealized, operation whose first object is to undermine his supporting structure in the proxies.
THE POWER STRUGGLE between the Moistis and Chou En-lai in the capital itself is largely a matter of high-level haggling, in which both parties may ultimately agree on a compromise. But in the final analysis the premier's effective strength rests on the administrative musculature throughout China, and the powerful regional military commanders who hold the last blue-bearled argument in the provinces.
For Maori arms armed only with the pen, the most implacable enemy is to be found among these cadres and revolutionary warlords, who look askance at any group of men, which have no urge to take orders from radical men or militant youth in their wieres. Were
IT IS IN A DRIVE to erode their local power that the left wing is reviling Confucius, denouncing decentralization, extorting the first emperor under whom "all chiefs of prefectures were appointed by the center and could be transferred to the general office for loyalty and not just lip service to be paid to the person of Chairman Mao in Peking.
it not for his dependence upon the more conservative soldiers, the prime minister himself might move further towards a real reconciliation with the Left.
The leftist word-spinners are unlikely to detonate another cultural revolution, however, for they have no Lin Piao. Those military commanders who sympathize with the do not have the strong backing from the army should they exercise to the logical limit their right to rebel. Furthermore, the hapless Lin Piao was posthumously ex-communicated as a renegade and a traitor. They must be held in high footsteps at a time when there are too many possible definitions of "tide"—and so too many possible definitions of "treason."
THE KU COLLEGIUM MUSICUM will present an informal concert of Christmas carols from 1:30 to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the KU Hall, 815 Third Street, day of classes and the Christmas season.
Annexation, Grant To Be Discussed By Commissioners
The Lawrence City Commission will discuss tonight the proposed annexation of Nieder Acres, which is at the southwest corner of 31st and 1st streets.
The commission will also consider a resolution to authorize the acceptance of a grant offer from the Federal Aviation Agency in relation to the preparation of the master plan study for the municipal airport.
The commission will meet at 7:30 tonight in the commission meeting room on the fourth floor of the First National Bank, 9th and Massachusetts streets.
Other items on the agenda include:
Other items on the agenda include:
—A public hearing to determine the advisability of demolishing two structures at 624 Walnut St.
—Consideration of a revised site plan for the Lewis Veterinarian Clinic to be located on the southwest corner of 6th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
Interest in Kohoutek High Observation Sessions Set
General public interest in the Kohoutek comet is very high, according to Steven Shawl, director of the KU Observatory and professor of physics and astronomy.
"It seems we are calling me every five minutes, wanting to know something about the comet," Shawl said. "They call wanting to know when comet Kobotek will be visible, where it will be visible, what a planet is going to observe the observation will be."
The first Observatory open house was scheduled for Dec. 5 but was canceled because of bad weather. However, Shawl and others were able to populate people from turning up to view the comet.
Nationwide, an increased interest in astronomy—which has been attributed to the arrival of Kohoutek—has resulted in some interesting economic offshoots, which have included a number of enthusiasts who wish to view Kohoutek at sea to increase in the sales of telescopes.
In Lawrence, however, the interest inspired by the Kohouche connet has not yet been satisfied.
The KU Observatory is in room 500 Lindley, and Shawl said there would be several more open houses for people to see. The observatory will open houses tomorrow and Dec. 19. After Christmas break open houses will be continued on Tuesdays and Thursdays at p.m. on Jan. 3, 8, 10, 17, and Dec. 19. The observatory would be even if the weather wasn't cloudy.
telescopes or books about astronomy, according to a check of local stores.
Shawl also said that a Geminide meteor shower would be visible in the night sky Dec. 13 and 14. He said 40 to 60 meteors an hour would be visible.
"The shower ought to be visible almost directly overhead around midnight." Shawiu
said. "It ought to be a pretty good show." The Koboutek Comet may be the most spectacular comet in history. Before December 28th, it will be visible on the eastern horizon and will be visible on the western horizon after sunset. The comet is expected to be brightest on December 24th. Koboutek should be visible to the naked eye until February, Shawl said.
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