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...unanimously approved a new constitution late last week. The lack of suspense belied the significance of the vote: the latest charter, the fourth since the Communist takeover in 1949, sweeps away many of the last vestiges of the late Mao Tse-tung and institutionalizes the reforms of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping...
...years and has been in poor health for some time. He reportedly asked a year ago to retire. In any case, such conciliatory statements and initiatives to the Soviets would customarily be cleared at the highest policymaking levels in Peking beforehand. It was not ruled out, however, that Strongman Deng Xiaoping might have viewed the departing Huang as a convenient intermediary to make the overture. With Huang out, Deng could more easily dissociate himself from any rapprochement with the Soviets should the move run into serious opposition within the Chinese leadership...
...tung's death in late 1976, Geng, 73, supported then Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was later purged, in arresting the so-called Gang of Four. His appointment as Defense Minister early last year was seen at the time as a compromise choice between the Maoist generals and Deng's supporters in the military. The new Defense Minister is Zhang Aiping, 72, a general who has headed the Scientific and Technological Commission for National Defense. One of Deng's most trusted men in the military establishment, he is an ardent advocate of modernizing the army...
...visits of Nixon in September and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in early October to send discreet positive signals back to Washington. Nixon and Kissinger were both told repeatedly by the top Chinese leaders that there is no need for concern about Ilyichev's return to Peking. Deng said that "no real and fundamental improvement in Sino-Soviet relations" was possible until the U.S.S.R. had met three conditions. The Soviets must pull out of Afghanistan, which shares a narrow border with China. Moscow must end its support for Viet Nam's military takeover of Cambodia. Indochina...
Nixon sees Deng Xiaoping, his comrades and his successors...