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Also, two reputable chamber groups. The Baroque Folk will play in Dunster's Sunday afternoon concert, and the Apple Hill Chamber Players at the Longy School of Music. Karen Hsiao...
Balancing Wang's meteoric rise, moreover, was the re-emergence of several pragmatic bureaucrats who had been discarded during the Cultural Revolution - most important, former Party General Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, now a Vice Premier, who in recent months has taken over many of Chou's diplomatic functions. Teng is one of four high-ranking officials (referred to by some Sinologists as "the Four Horsemen of Peking") who are expected collectively to assume Chou's manifold responsibilities if the Premier should pass from the scene. The others: Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled former Finance Minister, whose...
...same time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative inactivity over the summer led to rumors that he was out of favor, seems now to have been in genuinely poor health. Party Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping, who took over many of Chou's duties, continues to be prominently featured in the press. Significantly too, party members who are associated with China's outgoing foreign policy continue to outrank most of the radicals...
...Peking airport to welcome President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. When Bhutto was ushered into Chairman Mao Tse-tung's book-lined study for a ceremonial audience, Chou relinquished his customary place of honor at Mao's right hand to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and sat on Mao's left instead. Chou conducted two hours of energetic negotiations with Bhutto the following day but excused himself from attending a banquet that evening, explaining, "I am not very well because...
...prime example of irrelevant bickering came when Chinese Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the highest official of Mao Tse-tung's regime yet to visit North America, launched a vitriolic attack on U.S.-Soviet detente. Teng also lauded the Arab oil embargo, which he said had broken the "international economic monopoly" of the rich nations, and urged producers of other raw materials to emulate it. He drew a surprisingly low-key response from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who said that "isolated voices are to be heard that show there are some who have come to the session with...