MAO ORDERS FOREIGN STUDENTS TO LEAVE CHINA
The Tokyo Yomiuri Shymbun reported September 22 that its Peking correspondent ‘had-:learned that the Mao- regime. had told all. foreign students to:leave China by September 430. :The reason given for the decree was:that: teachers are too busy at present with: the “cultural. revolution" ‘to devote time to foreign students.
‘The Peking. office of Agence France Presse confirmed the report two days later, saying that the foreign students and indi-. viduals. doing research: work had been given a month “at the most”... -to get ‘out.of the country. AFP. said that last July when the. univer- Sities and higher schools..were:closed for six months, pending | revision of. curricula. and-examinations, foreign students were told they could resume their courses next February, but this assurance has now been réscinded. Theyiwill not be accepted again until September 1967. All nationalities are affected, including some 200 Vietnamese, 30:Cambodians, and 6 Algerians. It is not clear whether it- applies toa students who are political refugees from their native lands,
Teachers of French will probably not return from mein’ icc:
tions in view of a rule that they can use only French translations of the works of Mao Tse-tung as textbooks in teaching French.