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...Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the Philippine President. A few weeks ago, he went to the seaside resort of Peitaiho, 170 miles from the capital, to meet Togolese President Etienne Eyadéma, but most of the time he remains behind the thick walls of the old Forbidden City. Premier Chou Enlai, 76, Mao's versatile organization man, has spent most of the past two months in the hospital with what most analysts believe is a serious heart ailment. In the ruling Politburo, four of the 21 members are over 80, most are in their 70s, only four are under...
Succession, moreover, is not simply a matter of age. Since the devastating Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, Chou -with Mao's blessing-has gone a long way toward reconstituting the shattered party apparatus. But five years after reconstruction began, the task is only half completed. Of the 29 top party positions in China's provinces, eight are still vacant. China's military, 3.5 million strong, still has no Minister of Defense, no chief of staff and no top naval commander. The coalition of political interests that makes up the party leadership group remains awkwardly strained; military leaders...
...actress-wife Chiang Ching, 60, the party radicals are trying to keep ah've the intransigent revolutionary zeal of the Cultural Revolution. They see the pragmatic policies of Chou and the moderates threatening the purity of China's revolution. They are opposed, it seems, to Chou's tolerance of material incentives and his willingness to sacrifice ideological correctness for the sake of technical expertise. The most notable example is Chou's policy of detente with the West. Not only is accommodation with an imperialist country like the U.S. ideologically questionable, but trade with capitalist countries...
...Piao, anti-Confucius campaign was launched with great fanfare early this year, it has given rise to a number of puzzling events. First "revisionist" (i.e., vaguely anti-Maoist) operas were vigorously attacked, and members of the Politburo were criticized in wall posters. For several months it seemed that Premier Chou En-lai himself was under pressure from leftist factions in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers were predicting that the campaign heralded some major new development-perhaps on the scale of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. In recent weeks, however, the mysterious program has been grinding...
...balance in favor of the moderates. Prominent leftists like Chiang Ching, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan have faded from public view. At the same time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative inactivity over the summer led to rumors that he was out of favor, seems now to have been in genuinely poor health. Party Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping, who took over many of Chou's duties, continues to be prominently featured in the press. Significantly...