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Show Special Explores Propaganda's Influence on Chinese Citizens Chinese citizens, especially children, chil-dren, are the targets for the Maoist propaganda barrage. A two-part color special will explore ex-plore such events inside Red China and their relationships to the war in Vietnam on the featured ABC-TV's weekly series, "ABC Scope: The Vietnam War," on Saturdays, Sat-urdays, July IS and July 22. To demonstrate the activities, the "Scope" program shows actual Passengers on planes and trains being indoctrinated with Mao quotes and songs by the stewardesses steward-esses and conductors will be shown in the second part of the special. Viewers are also taken to a housing projects, steel plant in Shanghai and a textile factory in Peking. Williams narrates all his own films and is interviewed by John Scali. His name was changed to prevent damage to possible future dealings with the Chinese. Professional China-watchers will take the TV viewer to Red China the following week. Academic specialists will include Professors John K. Fairbanks, Edwin O. Rei-schauer, Rei-schauer, ex-Ambassador to Japan, Dr. A. M. Haplern and Dwight Perkins. All of those participating were members of the Harvard Conference. Con-ference. "North of North Vietnam" was produced by Sandy Goodman and "China Briefing" by Jack T. O'Grady, both under the" supervision super-vision of Arthur Holdi. films of ' school children playing "shoot President Johnson," attacking attack-ing dummies of "American imperialists" im-perialists" with spears and singing songs with words similar to: "I love my father, I love my mother, but I love Chairman Mao best." "North of North Vietnam," the first part of the special program, will see Red China on the films of a young European businessman who has visited mainland China many times in a period of two years most recently during May. "China Briefing," the July 22 "ABC Scope," will feature the highlights high-lights of a Harvard conference on Red China's influence on the United States foreign policy in Southeast Asia. Michael Williams, pseudonym for the European businessman, reports re-ports that the "cultural revolution" in China has lost a good deal of its steam. One portion of film shows the great enthusiasm during a visit in November 1966 in contrast to the recent May visit. "The people are constantly exposed ex-posed to propaganda," he says, but they "seem rather fed up with it." |