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...TENG, 500,000 people turned out to celebrate his escape from the gallows. At the same time, Peking television showed film clips of China's new ruling troika. At Chairman Hua Kuo-feng's right hand sat Teng; at Hua's left was Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying...
...come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...
...Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 77, Defense Minister and, because of recent deaths and purges, apparently the sole Vice Chairman of the party. China's top military figure since 1971, Yeh is thought to be a chief proponent of continuing Sino-American détente...
...interpreter made a possibly telling slip by announcing: "We welcome Dr. Kissinger." Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality." Calling for greater U.S. vigilance in the face of the Soviet military buildup, Ch'iao cited a Russian proverb...
...conflict is genuinely ideological and involves such issues as educational policy, technology and the need for political indoctrination. But increasingly it has become a naked struggle for power. China has a severe generation gap. Most of the leading moderates, such as Li Hsien-nien and Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying, are venerable party bureaucrats. The radicals, by and large, are young cadres who made personal power gains during the Cultural Revolution-gains that are now threatened by the rehabilitation of Chou's old guard. Says one U.S. analyst: "There were a lot of young people with lousy educations...