Word: enlai
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...countries, but the initial succession to Chairman Mao Zedong was accomplished without a major military struggle. Mao, who had attended the founding of the Chinese Communist Party of 1921 and who became the Chinese Communists; supreme leader in 1935, died in September 1976, only a few months after Zhou Enlai. The opening to the West had been legitimized while Mao was still alive as "the revolutionary line of chairman Mao," but after his death a brief struggle broke out between his widow and three of her more radical cohorts ("the gang of four") on the one hand and the Party...
...message was not an indirect, subtle signal. It was an authoritative personal message to Richard Nixon from Chou Enlai, who emphasized that he spoke not only for himself but also for Chairman Mao and Vice Chairman Lin Biao (Lin Piao...
...told by Chinese officials that the agreements would have to be deferred until further notice. Plans for Inter-Continental and Hyatt International to build thousands of hotel rooms have given way to other priorities. On a visit to Japan last week, Deng Yingchao, widow of the late Premier Chou Enlai, explained: "We have now realized that there were too many projects to be launched simultaneously. We must keep the balance between agriculture and light industry. One step backward is necessary for two steps forward...
...worked his way up through a series of economic posts to become Vice Minister of Finance in 1953, coordinator of China's North Viet Nam aid program in 1956, and director of China's entire foreign aid program during the 1960s. A protege of Premier Chou Enlai, Fang managed to avoid being purged during the Cultural Revolution, but it was not until Teng rose to power again in 1977 that Fang achieved his present eminence...
...their studied reticence and spirit of bland approval. Ultimately, the expansive city of Houston inspired one reporter to venture a faintly salty comment. Confronted by an exhibit of lunar modules, space suits and moon buggies at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center, he saw fit to paraphrase ex-Premier Chou Enlai: "We have too many problems down here on earth. Until we solve them, there's no point in going to the moon...