Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...
...immediate sign that Chairman Hua is in trouble was that he has not been seen in public for more than three weeks. Last week he even failed to turn up for a visit by a Greek Communist Party delegation; the group was received instead by Hu Yaobang. Hu, like Deng, is one of the few survivors of the Long March. Like Deng, too, the peasant-born Hu has been twice purged and twice rehabilitated. His resurgence was signaled last February when he was named head of a restored party secretariat, a post that gives him control of the party...
...departure and the Gang of Four trial. According to their theory, Hua may have agreed to step down in exchange for an agreement that his damaging past associations with the "evil gang" would not surface during the trial's proceedings. More likely, Hua may have recently collided with Deng's faction over the quickening pace of de-Maoization, which Hua is known to oppose...
...fact, Hua has for months appeared to be losing out in his contest for power with Deng, TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein reported. Last September Deng elbowed him out of the country's premiership to make way for younger, more pragmatic government leaders. In Deng's controlled press, articles indirectly accused Hua of blocking the dismissal of venal provincial officials, opposing economic reforms and acting like an old-style palace eunuch who rose to power by toadying to the Emperor-in this case, Hua's onetime patron...
...campaign against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...