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...seems to displace Hua, as the Gang of Four trial ends
...since Sam Houston Johnson moved into the White House so Lyndon could keep an eye on him. Billy, who declared his dislike for Blacks; Billy, who loaned his name to a (bad) brand of beer; Billy, who picked up a stack of money from Col. Khadafy and the Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport runways while his brother the President piously declared: "I have never had an occasion to be embarrassed by Billy. I'm proud he's my brother." And then there was the First Mother, Miss Lillian, who after examining...
...Chinese observers at the trial, Jiang Qing delivered an impassioned defense of the Cultural Revolution as a correct policy, approved by both Mao and Chou. Jiang claimed that Chou even sanctioned the attack on former Head of State Liu Shaoqi, which is held now to be one of the Gang of Four's gravest crimes. Then she defiantly challenged the court to execute her publicly at a mass rally in Peking's vast Tiananmen Square...
...level of attacks on Mao even before the trial of his widow was finished? One possible explanation is that the ascendant faction led by Senior Vice Chairman Deng Ziaoping may not be opposed to an unofficial linking of the "mistakes" of Mao with the "crimes" of the Gang of Four. The pragmatic Deng seems to have decided that a thoroughgoing de-Maoization is going to be necessary...
From 1978 on, with Mao dead and the Gang of Four arrested, Schell returned repeatedly to find many of those streets transformed. There were more spontaneous introductions, ogling of Western clothing and transactions for profit. At the Peace Café, Benefit-the-People Wang had quick eyes for American cigarettes, Inca-bloc watches and hard currencies. He and his friends drank orange soda mixed with beer and discussed which foreign visitor might like to get it on with Golden Thunder Chen...