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...enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
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...
Just 27 days after Mao Tse-tung's death last September, Wang Tung-hsing, a close confidant of Mao's since the 1930s, set out on what seemed like a simple courtesy call on Mao's politically ambitious widow, Chiang Ch'ing. Accompanied by some aides from one of his commands, the elite 15,000-man palace guard, Wang strode into Mme. Mao's sumptuous villa in the Forbidden City - and promptly arrested her. A few hours before, he had taken into custody Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen and two other Politburo figures...
...Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, fighting rages for control of the area's 700-ton illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which at one time winked at Lo's operations, attacked Lo and men from his private army, forcing them across the border into Thailand and into...
...than a decade, Burmese Strongman Ne Win had permitted one of Burma's militias, the Ka Kwe Ye (K.K.Y.), to engage in the opium trade as a reward for its support of his campaign against Communist guerrillas. With this franchise, the K.K.Y. and its most important leader, Lo Hsing-han, openly carried opium along Burmese roads. Early this year Ne Win abruptly switched policy. Worried about growing drug addiction among Burmese youth and realizing that he would have no chance of receiving aid from the U.S. unless he cooperated, he ordered Lo to get out of the opium trade...