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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...
...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...
...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...