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low profile since, as professional edu–
cators, they were easy targets for po–
litical criticism themselves.
Today, with the gang of four over–
thrown, and the pressing need to
modernize, education is getting back
to normal. Subjects banned by the
gang of four have been restored.
Scientific research is going again.
The Ministry of Education is once
again in control of Peking and Fudan
Universities.
Exams and grades have returned
also, though exams are still fairly
lenient. Tests are all "open book"
and papers are only marked "excel–
lent," "good," or "not good enough."
Evidently, education officials still
follow Mao's dictum that teachers
should not wage "guerrilla war"
against their students by asking them
difficult exam questions.
Nevertheless, sorne of the prob–
Jems created by the gang of four still
linger. Many students who graduated
from universities during the reign of
the gang of four are woefully under–
trained. Others, who spent their time
developing the proper "class outlook"
instead of studying, may find that
sorne educational opportunities are
now denied to them.
The renewed emphasis on educa–
tion in the PRC also highlights the
fact that educational resources are in
short supply. Even the offices of full
college professors are often bare of
books. Libraries are desperately
lacking in reference materials. There
is also a tremendous shortage of
books, in particulár English books.
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PLAIN TAUTH October/ November 1979
This situation, of course, repre–
sents an
open door
to the Ambassa–
dor lnternational Cultural Founda–
tion, of which Mr. Herbert W. Arm–
strong is Founder and Chairman.
During my talks with representatives
of the Ministry of Education, we
were able to reach an accord that will
ultimately lead to the purchase of
books in excess of $500,000 and the
training of teachers and students in
library science. Many of these books
will be published by Everest House, a
publishing company affiliated with
the AICF. Mr. Armstrong's own
powerful and inspiring work,
The ln–
credible Human Potential,
will head
up the list.
After years of being isolated from
the world, the recent changes in the
PRC representa very real opportunity
for the AICF to aid in furthering the
worldwide educational work being
done by Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Arm–
strong has spent a lifetime promoting
the true values in education.
lt
now
looks as if he will have the opportunity
to extend his efforts to theworld's most
populouscountry. o
PREPARING THE WA Y
for Mr. Herbert
W. Armstrong's China visit, Mr. Stanley
Rader recently met with severa/ impar·
tant officials at Peking Teacher's Uni–
versity. While there, he showed them a
copy of
Quest
magazine (below). Mr.
Rader siso met with some of the Peking
Teachet's University's most prominent
librar/ans at Peking University (middle)
and with the staff at the Fudan Universi–
ty library (left).
U.S. TROUBLE
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groups throughout the eastern Carib–
bean to engage in labor strikes, dem–
onstrations and other forms of con–
frontation with government.
The escalating unrest raises fears
- both in Washington and in many
of the Caribbean's larger countries
-that what happened in Grenada
could be repeated in Dominica (pop–
ulation 78,000), Antigua (70,000),
S
t.
Lucia ( 120,000) and S
t.
Vincent
(112,000).
" Circ les of Trouble"
The rumblings in the eastern Carib–
bean-coupled with the strife in
Central America-are causing U.S.
officials to worry increasingly about
what sorne call "concentric circles of
trouble."
By this is meant that the troubles
on both sidcs of the Caribbean (once
called an "American lake" because
of the predominant U.S. inftuence)
could reach out in shock waves to
other larger countries such as Jamai–
ca, Haití and the Dominican Repub–
lic.
Unrest could conceivably spread to
the northern and southern reaches of
the Caribbean basin as well, taking
in Mexico and Venezuela, two criti–
ca! sources of oil for the United
S tates.
Syndicated columnist Marquis
Childs adds an especially chilling
note concerning the potential impact
upon Mexico: " If worst comes to
worst, a stronghold of dictatoria l
Communism will exist at the heart of
the Central American península.
This is of the greatest concern to
Mexico which has its own problems
of poverty and terror. Guatemala has
a long and often ill-defined border
with Mexico's southernmost province
of Chiapas and is in proximity to
Mexico's rapidly developing oil
fields. ' '
As he left for exile, deposed Nica–
raguan
pr~sident
Anastasio Somoza
warned that Communist insurgents
could be "on the Rio Grande"- the
U.S.-Mexican border- in a few
year's time.
The mind boggles at the impact
upon the social fabric of the United
States were a Communist revolution
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