Among the traditional Chinese sayings Mao Tse-tung likes to quote is the one about a fool: "He lifted the rock only to crush his feet." Last week, in a rare display of defensiveness, Chairman Mao was busily reassuring his subjects that hehad not dropped the rocky island of Quemoy on his toes.
Apparently even Red China's disciplined masses had found the sudden shifts in Peking's Quemoy policy too much to swallow. Only two months ago millions of Chinese students and workers were whipped into a synthetic fenzy of rage at "U.S. invasion" of Quemoy and...
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