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Apparently cooperating with Deng and his gerontocracy was Chairman Hua Guofeng, 57, who made his own contribution to de-Maoification. In a long-winded toast at a state banquet commemorating the anniversary, Chairman Hua did not once mention Chairman...
...President's foreign policy pronouncements, which constituted an implicit warning to the Soviets. "Any nation," said Mondale, "which seeks to weaken or isolate you in world affairs assumes a stance counter to American interests." At a Peking news conference, Mondale said that Communist Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng had accepted "with delight" an invitation from President Carter to visit the U.S. some time next year...
That was 13 years ago. Since then, the death of Mao Tse-tung and a political convulsion have brought to power a more outward looking regime led by Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping. Last week China seemed intent on showing the rest of the world a newer, more tolerant face toward Christianity-and other religions as well. As official Chinese delegates to the Third Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in Princeton, N.J., eight Chinese religious leaders arrived in the U.S. for the ten-day meeting. The group included Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, among them Anglican Bishop...
...Kissinger party met with top Chinese leaders, including Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and Foreign Minister Huang Hua. Kraft reports he was surprised to find that Vice Premier Deng, only recently regarded as the undisputed leader of China, "seemed restrained, almost wistful-not the self-confident boss secure at the top of the greasy pole he so often climbed before." By contrast, the columnist found Deng's reputed rival, Party Chairman Hua, to be "well informed and composed He didn't give the impression of someone being threatened from below...
...Bhutto's guilt and the fairness of his original trial. When the Supreme Court, by a narrow 4-to-3 majority, upheld the guilty verdict, pleas for clemency poured in from world leaders, including President Carter, the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev, China's Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng), Britain's James Callaghan and Pope John Paul...