Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congress intends to adopt a new party constitution that, according to a draft that found its way outside China early this year, will enshrine Mao's policies as official guideposts and formally designate Lin as his heir. The congress will also legitimize the new leadership that has emerged from the crucible of the purges. Finally, the delegates will select a new Central Committee. The old committee was purged of at least two-thirds of its membership, including such leading figures as President Liu Shaochi and Teng Hsiao-ping, the party secretary-general. With that, the congress will officially establish...
...Guests. China's masters were secretive about the congress. They even refused to disclose its exact location (it was probably held in Peking's Chungnanhai district, an enclave reserved for high officials). In contrast to the 1958 congress, there were no foreign guests who might later tell outsiders about what happened...
Little is known of his personal life and habits. Reportedly, he has two grown children from an earlier marriage. His present wife, plump and fortyish Yeh Chun, was named twelfth in the order of those attending the congress. She is the best friend of Chiang Ching, Mao's wife...
...Chinese Communist Party Congress had hardly convened in Peking before the Soviet Union started a harsh new propaganda drive against Mao and his followers. The Soviet denunciations widened the already huge gap between the two rival Communist powers and demonstrated the Soviets' deep fear of the erstwhile ally...
...Sino-Soviet dispute, the Russians finally gave up all pretense of trying to effect a reconciliation with their Asian comrades. They have now brusquely read them out of the international brotherhood. "The Communist Party of China is no more," wrote Izvestia. "The Maoist rally is actually the first congress of a new organization which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China or with international Communism...