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...positioned to endure just such a test. An important measure of their strength is the fact that the 29 ministers appointed to the State Council, China's Cabinet, are overwhelmingly pre-Cultural Revolution bureaucrats or men personally close to Chou. The Premier's old wartime buddy Yeh Chien-ying, 76, moved into the crucial post of Defense Minister. Another oldtimer and Chou crony, Li Hsien-nien, 67, will oversee finance and trade. Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, resurrected from Cultural Revolutionary disgrace 21 months ago by Chou, presumably with Mao's approval, continued his astonishing comeback. He became...
...Chien-ying, 76, was appointed Defense Minister, a post that had been vacant since 1971, when Lin Piao died in a plane crash after allegedly trying to assassinate Party Chairman...
Also cited by the University were the Most Rev. Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil; Chien-Shiung Wu, an experimental nuclear physicist; and Clifford Geertz, a social anthorpologist...
...Chien-Shiung Wu, the second of this year's female honorary degree recipients, received a Doctor of Science degree. The Michael Pupit. Professor of Physics at Columbia University, Wu has done intensive study in the fields of nuclear forces and structure...
...Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental nuclear physicist, a Doctor of Science...