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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park was almost late for his own party. Shortly before, U.S. customs officials at Anchorage had stopped him as he was en route to Washington from Korea, and they copied his papers. The material included a three-page typewritten list of more than 90 legislators and federal officials, some of whom had figures with dollar signs written next to their names. The tip-off on Park may have come from CIA telephone taps and electronic bugs in South Korea-the disclosure of which may now be embarrassing to the U.S. Government. Park said the sums represented requests for campaign contributions...
...Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long and close associations with China's late pragmatic Premier Chou En-lai will have pre-eminent influence...
...en Hsi-lien, 63, Vice Premier and commander of the Peking Military Region. Once a peasant guerrilla fighter, Ch'en rose through the ranks of the Red Army. His support was probably essential in Hua's lightning coup against the radicals...
...politically was an antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime favorite to succeed Chou En-lai as Premier, for erroneously arguing that "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it can catch mice." Teng's sin was suggesting that the color of the cat (meaning correct ideology) was less important than such practical results as building...
With or without Teng himself, the way may be open for a revival of his views. Tlie editorial that explained the fall of the brigands also praised the economic program of Chou En-lai-the pragmatic, steady approach to development, emphasizing material incentives and technological skills-which Teng, opposed by the radicals, had tried to carry out. The lineup of leaders appearing with Hua at T'ien An Men seems very much in the Chou-Teng mold. They are the cats that, black or white, are primarily interested in catching mice...