Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wandered in the library's lobby among photographs and mementos of his trip to China in 1975. There is a picture of Ford trooping the line in Peking with Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, another of Betty Ford, shoes off, dancing with the children of a ballet class. It is fascinating how much recent Presidents have adopted the Chinese nation as their reference point of triumph and adventure...
Like Deputy Chairman Deng Xiaoping, who now guides China, Huang ended up on Mao's purge list. He was dismissed as Chief of Staff of the Peoples Liberation Army in 1959 for opening criticizing the shortcomings of Mao's Great Leap Forward. Not until Mao died was Huang readmitted to a party position...
Huang softens his criticism by suggesting that responsibility for what went wrong should not rest solely with Mao. "If we impute all the mistakes committed by our party to Chairman Mao, this does not conform to historical facts. What Comrade Deng Xiaoping said is right: we old party members shared our merits in setting up a new China. Now it is unfair to shift all mistakes to one person, as though we have no responsibility...
...When Deng, in a 1978 interview, discussed Mao's inadequacies, he suggested that the old man had been 70% right and 30% wrong. Huang's assessment though lacking in specifics, follows that ratio, and Western diplomats in Peking last week interpreted the speech as a trial balloon. If those masses who visit the Tiananmen tomb do not accept the critique, the leadership will probably go a step further and reveal specific errors. If they do, the way should be clear for a sixth party plenum next summer at which Mao's place in history will be more...
...relax existing regulations top slots Internior Secretary James Watt John Shad bureaucratic trenches On Capitol Hill labor laws Unions will fight back Outlook constitutional amendment convention runaway convention ROTC The Vietnam War military careers Tuition costs purple stamp 20 cents giving and receiving ends military muscle Arab-Israeli conflict Deng Xiaoping a reshuffle of command oaths and indoctrinations radical ideology 13 percent cut important legitimacy Don't exaggerate anti-Vietnam united front not about to leave neutralized grand gesture capital spending on the skids US recession Germany's slump Deutsche Bank fight inflation tobacco and alcoholic beverages oil revenues bank...