Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever happens now in China, now that the "gang of four" has been cast out and a new regime has moved in, Schell's book will be valuable, a record--perhaps the most sensitive that could have been done by an outsider--of what it was like to live under Chairman Mao, in a country undergoing such huge changes that only a traveler's personalized tale could capture its essence...
...male students' assumption that she is as free with her body as she is with her opinions. But we are less surprised than Mira when after a night spent dancing giddily in a bar, a friend has to whisk her away and lock her up to prevent a gang rape...
...Fifth National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament. The agenda will be pure formality: primarily, approving Cabinet appointments already made by party leaders. More time was needed to elect delegates to the congress, said Hua, because of relentless "interference and sabotage" by followers of the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and the Antiparty Clique of the late Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being Gang of Four sympathizers...
...chang, was also officially reported to have suffered "a martyr's death" at his post. Some Sinologists believe the generals were victims of rebellions in Fukien that forced Hua to dispatch 12,000 troops to the region. Last week a radio broadcast from Fukien reported that followers of the Gang of Four were still causing "very serious" problems in the area...