Word: deng
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...considerable interest in the success, or at least the survival, of the Four Modernizations policy of Deng Xiaoping. The U.S. can help with investment, financing, technology, bilateral trade and exchange programs for scientists, scholars and especially managers. Richard Nixon, among others, has speculated about the tantalizing, though still extremely remote, possibility that Deng's program, with its stress on pragmatism over ideology, could some day even lead the Chinese to abandon not just Maoism, which it is now doing, but Marxism-Leninism. Such a monumental defection from the Red banner would be a huge setback to the Soviet Union...
...that upheaval were in the audience for Sunday's proceedings. Among them was Wang Guangmei, widow of onetime Head of State Liu Shaoqi. Wang triumphantly declared the trial a "victory for the people." In reality, it was mainly the victory of the ruling faction of Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, which now enjoys almost undisputed power. But the Chinese people, who have bad memories of the Cultural Revolution, are not likely to grieve over the verdict on the radicals...
...President was asked to appraise the world leaders he had dealt with. He described China's Deng Xiaoping as a breath of fresh air, a man who, in Carter's mind, could be trusted to keep his word. "He was not afraid to talk about his country's weaknesses," said Carter, "something the Soviets would never dare do." Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was the most powerful of all the Western leaders he had worked with because of the wide authority granted to the President by French law. Britain's Margaret Thatcher...
...dilemma for the leaders seems to be this: Should they execute Mao's widow, or impose the death penalty but not carry it out? Peking sources say that powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping fears that executing Jiang Qing would not only deeply offend those Chinese who still cherish the memory of Mao but would also turn her into a martyr. Deng, however, has apparently not convinced members of the Politburo, as well as other party leaders who suffered at Jiang's hands during the Cultural Revolution, that executing her would do more harm than good. "There are different...
...Deng is likely to get his way, and sentences could be announced this week. Nonetheless, the failure to dispose of the Gang of Four case comes at an awkward moment for top party leaders; they have frankly admitted that there is widespread disillusionment as to the party's ability to achieve results in just about everything. One problem is the persistent appearance of disunity at the top, brought about most recently by Deng's unceremonious dumping of Hua Guofeng as party chairman in late December. Deng sought to allay rumors that China was in the grip...