Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deng's triumph includes a purge of some old enemies
...posthumous rehabilitation of Liu was another triumph for one of his closest allies-China's all-powerful Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Nor was that all. The Central Committee announced the resignation from the Politburo of four radical holdovers from the Maoist era who had participated in the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution campaign against Liu and Deng. Purged were Wang Dongxing, Mao's former bodyguard, Vice Premiers Chen Xilian and Ji Dengkui, and Wu De, a former mayor of Peking...
When Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Houston last year, Rancher John Joyce gave him a Texas-size souvenir: a 1,000-lb. champion brahma bull worth $10,000. Joyce also handed Deng a letter offering to sell more bulls, if China was shopping...
...with the bull, but has received no replies. Last week an official of the Chinese embassy in Washington said that the "matter is still under consideration" and that he is still waiting for orders from Peking. Meanwhile, Joyce said, he is "tired of feeding the bull," which since Deng's visit has gained 400 lbs. on a $2.50-a-day diet of corn, cottonseed hulls, molasses, oats and a protein supplement...
...theory that one factor in the Kremlin's Afghan adventurism may well have been its longstanding paranoia about China and its fears of a new U.S.-China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training Afghan rebels. A senior White House official also confirmed that the U.S. Central Intelligence...