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...researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became aware of the misattributions when he saw a copy of Mao's Unpublished Poems. "Not all these poems are written by Chairman Mao," he told a friend. "Many are mine." Chen called the apparent plagiarism to the attention of then Premier Chou En-lai, who was a defender of the people against Maoist radicals. Chou reportedly praised Chen for speaking out and immediately called for circulation of the work to be halted...
...primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers of Public Security, as well as such veterans of the Cultural Revolution as Wang Dongxing, 69, a onetime Mao bodyguard who in the mid-1970s rose to become a vice chairman...
Another setback for the government came in February with the collapse of the Tenth Credit Cooperative, a major Taiwan savings and loan institution, and the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., linchpin of the mighty Cathay group (estimated 1984 assets: $2.5 billion). The cooperative's chairman, Tsai Chen-chou, had funneled more than $190 million from Tenth Credit to fund his own shaky business schemes. Many citizens feel that members of the ruling Kuomintang (K.M.T.) knew of the scandal but looked the other way. Indeed, Tsai and his half brother Tsai Chen-nan, chairman of the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., had been...
...sent Chou a response, apologizing for offending the students concerned. NBC failed to address the students' request that they ban the offending scene from...
...Chou brought the letter to a meeting of Harvard's Asian-American Association, asking for their support and the signatures of the co-presidents. She then brought the letter to the attention of M.I.T.'s Chinese Students Club and Tufts' Asian Students Club...