Word: deng
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There is little question about the verdict. Both Party Chairman Hua Guofeng and former Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping have publicly declared the group of four to be guilty. In the past, Hua has given assurance that the four would not be executed. But last week official Chinese Spokesman Zeng Tao claimed that reports of Hua's remarks "were not entirely accurate" and did not rule out the death penalty...
...formally announced to the National People's Congress that, as expected, he would step down from his top government post to make way for a new Premier, former Sichuan province Governor Zhao Ziyang. Hua also made it official that seven Vice Premiers, including the architect of the transition, Deng Xiaoping, would retire from their government posts; among their successors will be the Westward-leaning Foreign Affairs Minister, Huang Hua. But it was the appointment of Zhao that best symbolized the rise of a pragmatic, younger generation to power, as TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein reports...
Over the course of last year, Sichuan province, Deng's home, emerged as a national model for China and Zhao, 61, as a model bureaucrat. Zhao had been denounced during the Cultural Revolution as a "stinking landlord element" (his father had been a landowner in Henan province) and was paraded down the streets of Canton in 1967 with a dunce cap on his head, a type of experience he shared with a number of other Chinese leaders. He disappeared for four years; then, in 1975, after serving in both Inner Mongolia and Guangdong province party posts, he was sent...
With the evident approval of Deng, Zhao pioneered many of the programs that have now been approved as policies for all of China. "We must adopt whatever is most effective," he said. "We must never cocoon ourselves like silkworms." He favored practically everything that Chairman Mao Tse-tung had opposed-free markets for agricultural products, competition among enterprises, bonuses and higher salaries for workers to spur productivity. He introduced experimental measures into some 100 factories, allowing profits to be used in part for reinvestment or for better working conditions. So successful were Zhao's policies that...
...discussing Mao Tse-tung, who has been downgraded since his death in 1976, Deng said that "we shall not do to Mao what Khrushchev did to Stalin." But Mao's "unhealthy thinking, ultra-leftist ideas, and patriarchal behavior" had led to the Cultural Revolution, "a civil war in which many people died." When Fallaci suggested that more people died under Stalin than during the Cultural Revolution, Deng responded: "I am not sure about that. Not sure...