RED CHINA: Wash-Up Time

Red China, like the rest of the Communist world, is having its troubles with rebellious youth. In Peking last week Communist Party chieftains were viewing with alarm a series of sporadic demonstrations, strikes and outcries among China's 70 million students.

At Chengting, 150 miles southwest of Peking, students actually staged a march on the capital, and party officials had to cajole them into returning to their classes. In Harbin students have flatly refused to attend standard Communist lectures on "collective life, political theories and central guidance," i.e., party rule.

What caused the...

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