Word: feng
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Peking, as well as Washington, seems to be undergoing probes by the Soviets. Hua Kuo-feng, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's successor, is at least as unfamiliar a face to the Russians as is Jimmy Carter. In contrast to its get-tough attitude toward Washington, the Kremlin seems to be holding an olive branch out to the Chinese. Since Mao's death, Radio Moscow's Chinese-language broadcasts have been stressing that "the fundamental interests in the two countries are identical." Recent speeches by Soviet officials have been notable for the absence of any political references that...
...summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she then plotted the assassination of China's new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng...
From the huge, ocher-red viewing stand of Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square, China's newly ordained Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng confidently smiled and waved. Below were assembled more than 1 million representatives of China's proletarian masses, waving placards, paper bouquets and red flags. The well-organized 80-minute demonstration, which was shown on television around the world, marked the official unveiling of China's post-Mao leadership alignment. It also celebrated the end of at least one chapter in a bitter six-week power struggle that saw China...
...been arrested on Oct. 7, were the "devils, demons and goblins who falsified Chairman Mao Tse-tung's directives and conspired to split the party"-obvious allusions to charges that the radicals had forged quotes from the late Great Helmsman and had tried to assassinate Hua Kuo-feng in a futile attempt to seize power...
...continuing crackdown on the leftists suggested that Hua Kuo-feng, assisted by moderates and army commanders, was moving rapidly to consolidate his grip on China's tentacles of power. The new party Chairman's next task will probably be to establish his own trademark, creating a distinctive and inspiring style of rule. That may turn out to be difficult for a man who has proved himself so far to be a competent administrator but hardly a charismatic leader in the mold of Mao. Nonetheless for the moment at least, Hua seems to be the triumphant beneficiary...