Mao’s Thoughts Up In Smoke
(N .Z .PA .-Reuter—Copyright) RANGOON, Aug. 20. The fierce rebel tribesmen of the Kachin Hills in Northern Burma have found a new use for the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung—they smoke them. The official “Working People’s Daily” reports that when 12 Kachin tribesmen of the rebel “Kachin Independence Army” surrendered themselves to Burmese troops recently they brought with them the red covers of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung" with all the contents tom out.
They explained they had used the pages to roll Burmese cheroots.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 7
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