Word: feng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fireworks. In Shanghai, a city that last April had featured posters saying HANG THE CULPRIT TENG, 500,000 people turned out to celebrate his escape from the gallows. At the same time, Peking television showed film clips of China's new ruling troika. At Chairman Hua Kuo-feng's right hand sat Teng; at Hua's left was Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying...
...seen many people "half starving," and that disturbances, particularly among tenant farmers, had been widespread in Fukien province. He complained about the regimentation; all his spare time was taken up with political-indoctrination classes and "criticism and selfcriticism" sessions. Despite the strong efforts of Premier Hua Kuo-feng's regime to discredit the so-called Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing, Fan reported that supporters of the ousted radicals still have some limited power in the air force...
...predict the political demise last month of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Carter was annoyed at the CIA's failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "The wide-scope stuff tends to be soft and mushy," says a National Security Council officer. "It just doesn't do us much good." A CIA official concedes that "there...
Chairman Hua Kuo-feng might consider making selections from Witke's book required reading for the period of de-Chiang Ch'ingification. Certain descriptions of Mme, Mao's "imperial proletarian style" would serve the new regime well in illustrating just how "bourgeois right" an "ultraleftist...
...China into near-total chaos for the sake of ideological purity. Thus it is almost certain that the purge of Chiang Ch'ing was indirectly a slap at her husband as well. Accompanied as it was by the triumph of the pragmatists under new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, Chiang Ch'ing's fall represents the beginnings of a kind of de-Maoification in China, in fact if not in name...