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...sharpest players of bridge, China's shrewd Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing has been leading from a strong hand in the continuing jockeying for top power in Peking. Although last month he did not, as some China watchers speculated, replace Party Boss Hua Kuo-feng as China's Premier at the National People's Congress, Teng has in other ways been picking up trick after trick. He has gradually eliminated political opponents who shunted him into obscurity in the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, and bolstered those who share his pragmatism and belief that modernizing China must...
...switch on Confucius is apparently part of an effort to reverse the destructive effect on China of Mao's hatred for traditional learning and his contempt for intellectuals. Now that the post-Mao regime of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng has begun to reconstitute the nation's ravaged educational system, China's greatest scholar and thinker may yet be fully rehabilitated. As Confucius said: "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them...
...Trying to have Premier Hua Kuo-feng replace Mao and fill the political gap left by his death is treating a string like a rope," Terrill said. "There is nobody with the authority to zig and zag as Mao did in the last 15 years of his life," he added...
That struggle will evidently continue to be led by Mao's relatively youthful (56) designated heir, Hua Kuo-feng, who is both Premier and Party Chairman. At week's end reports out of Peking said that Hua had been re-elected Premier, while Party Vice Chairman Yeh Chien-ying, 79, would also be China's equivalent to chief of state. Earlier, there had been speculation that the third member of the ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might...
...conclusion this will not solve the problem of the psychological barrier between us and Israel, because I'm inviting the five big powers as if I am going to hide behind them. And the Israelis have no confidence in Brezhnev if he comes. [China'sChairman] Hua Kuo-feng supports the Arab cause, and the Israelis will not be happy with him. At that same time I was thinking of praying [during Greater Bairam, the Feast of Sacrifice] in Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. This is one of the three holiest places in the Muslim world. So I made...