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...would be unhappy to get a higher salary than my fellow undergraduate teaching fellows, since I'm not doing anything more than they are," Karen Hsiao, one of the course's graduate teaching fellows, said yesterday...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Math Aides May Face Cut in Pay | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...might be expected of one of his country's 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mini-Gang War | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...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 get Hua's top job. But Teng was said to have announced that he did not want it. partly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Political rivalries may well remain at the top of the hierarchy. Many officials rocketed to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (among them: Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing, Peking Mayor Wu Teh and even Chairman Hua), while others (like Teng Hsiao-p'ing) were purged. In the long run, and despite the talk in Peking of a "united front," there remains a possibility that a new power struggle will erupt between Hua's supporters and Teng's veteran technocrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Peking has tried to persuade Hanoi and Phnom-Penh to negotiate a ceasefire. Although each side accuses the other of aggression, the Chinese have been carefully ambiguous in apportioning blame. Teng Hsiao-p'ing's most recent remark on that subject was a masterpiece of inscrutability: "Whoever provoked the conflict will come to no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Diplomatic Blues in Peking | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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