Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faster reaction time. U.S. units on the central front no longer have to spend hours picking up and loading ammunition after receiving warning of an attack. Instead, a large portion of U.S. combat vehicles and aircraft are kept permanently loaded, even though this increases the risk of accidents. At the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's base in Fulda, for example, helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers and scout cars are fully armed and lined up for swift departure. Says Colonel Robert Sunell, the regiment's commander: "I won't tell you how fast I can move this regiment...
...height, Chairman Hua was silent, unseen by Westerners. With the jaunty confidence of a man in charge, Teng emphasized that there would not be an internecine party struggle and that there would be no firings from the Politburo, despite the posters calling for purges. "The party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng," he told a Japanese visitor, "is united and fully confident of carrying through the Four Modernizations...
...Western world that the outpourings of grief over Chou's death were revolutionary acts. After some of the wall posters called for an ex post facto justification of the T'ien An Men rally, Teng announced that the 1976 demonstration had indeed been sanctified by the Central Committee. Teng was quoted as saying: "It may be called a unanimous decision, expressing the desires of the whole party, the whole army and all the Chinese people...
From an endorsement of T'ien An Men, it was a small ideological step to allowing public criticism of Mao. Radical supporters of the Chairman had been responsible for condemning the mourning of Chou-who was, of course, Teng's protector and guide. The Central Committee's hallowing of that 1976 ceremony was a subtle way for Teng to humiliate his old enemies...
...eggs" who attacked the legacy of Mao kept it up, someone would "smash your dog heads." Still, from some of Teng's cryptic phrases, China experts speculated that the murky struggles within the party leadership would be carried forward to a meeting of the 201-member Central Committee later this month. That event-unless Teng and his colleagues decided that a little touch of democracy was enough for the moment -could well inspire another campaign of wall posters as guides to popular thinking...