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Once again, China seems to be embroiled in a power struggle between its ideological factions. One week after the unexpected appointment of the relatively unknown Hua Kuo-feng as the country's acting Premier (TIME, Feb. 16), leftists in Peking's leadership launched a violent attack on their "rightist" enemies. The radicals' rhetorical onslaught, if it continues to grow, could upset the plans for a smooth leadership succession carefully worked out by Chou En-lai before his death last month...
...Hsiao-p'ing, Chou's hand-picked First Vice Premier, as his successor. Most surprisingly, the Chinese leadership last week passed over Teng and appointed a relative unknown as Acting Premier, pending eventual approval by the rubber stamp National People's Congress. He is Hua Kuo-feng, 56, Minister of Public Security and No. 6-ranking Vice Premier (among the twelve...
Harvard sinologists expressed surprise yesterday at the appointment of Public Security Minister Hua Kuo-feng as the acting premier of China, but agreed that China's foreign policy probably will not change in the near future as a result...
...Hunan workers accused "certain leaders" in their province of "suppressing and dividing" the citizens. Without giving details, they alluded to clashes in which four were killed, many wounded and scores arrested. One poster named Hua Kuo-feng, the Communist Party boss of Hunan and a member of China's Politburo, as the culprit. Seldom in the current campaign have wall posters dared to attack top-level officials by name. Only a few hours after that poster went up, it was ripped down. This sequence of events has led veteran China watchers to conclude that the radicals still have powerful...
...early class was devoted to a parable about the life of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in 1962 and is revered as a revolutionary hero. Another centered about the People's Daily attack on Italian Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whose documentary film on China has been under attack for its portrayal of some of the cruder aspects of Chinese life. There is so little interest in another class, devoted to the Communist party line on Chinese affairs, that only three or four students regularly attend it. When students presented a petition-signed not only by Westerners, but also...