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...Chinese premier's name "Hua Kuo-feng" in Wade-Giles--would become "Hua Guofeng" in Pinyin. Egan said. The Chinese word for China. "Chung-kuo," is "Zhangguo" in Pinyin...
...Peking late last week, Chairman Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) announced that the Chinese withdrawal had been completed. Hanoi, however, contended that Chinese troops still occupied sections of one Vietnamese border province. This point was supported by diplomats in the region who felt Peking wanted to maintain control of what had been "disputed territory" along the 735-mile frontier...
China's new rulers might put it more practically: no law, no Four Modernizations program to improve agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. "It is essential to strengthen the socialist legal system if we are to bring great order across the land," says Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. That means assuring bureaucrats, intellectuals and skilled workers essential to China's development that they will not be summarily sent off to the rice paddies or driven to suicide, as they often were under Mao. Fear of government highhandedness, party leaders now admit, has been running rampant. To boost morale...
...five uniformed services. Among the battle flags the servicemen were to carry on their standards: pennants commemorating U.S. combat against the Chinese in the Korean War. Carter faced a protocol problem of his own in his welcoming speech. Should he mention China's Premier and Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng? His advisers said yes, that prudence dictated some acknowledgment of the head of government left behind in China...
...Vice-President would first utter a few sentences, at which time the interpreter, in a high-pitched "stage" voice used specifically for audiences, would interject and translate Mondale's words into Chinese. Modale praised the President, Premier Hua Kuo-feng and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, acclaimed the establishment of diplomatic ties and said "the touchstones of this new and historic chapter in Sino-American relations are equality and realism, in contrast to the "estrangement, misunderstanding and confrontation" which have characterized so much of America's previous dealings with the Asian power. He later added that our ideological differences cannot...