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...Peking leadership and win wide-based acceptance for his program to speed up China's economic growth. To fight Hua and his supporters, Deng had carefully put together a coalition of his own composed of thousands of officials who had been ignominiously disgraced-like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism had imposed on industrial and technological development and on the modernization of the military. The gradual elimination of diehard Maoists from...
...years he has marched in lock-step with his more celebrated mentor, engaged in the same skirmishes, succumbed to the same defeats. Last week he shared in the same triumph. China's new Chairman, Hu Yaobang (pronounced Who Yow-bong), is the obliging alter ego for Deng Xiaoping, the country's real strongman. A shade shorter and ten years younger than the 5-ft. 2-in., 76-year-old Deng, Hu has the same resilience, explosive energy and quick intelligence. At the same time, Hu is a demanding administrator who can be relied on to carry...
Born to a peasant family in south-central China, Hu joined the Communist Youth League (C.Y.L.) at the age of 14, and was admitted into the Communist Party in 1933. He first attracted Mao's attention during the legendary 1934 Long March in the civil war against the Chinese Nationalists, when the Communists retreated 6,000 miles through eleven provinces before reaching Yanan in Shaanxi province. Though Hu never finished primary school and had to teach himself how to read, Mao assigned him to increasingly important jobs in the C.Y.L. in the 1930s. In 1941 Hu met Deng while...
When Mao launched his devastating Cultural Revolution in 1966, Hu was one of its first victims. With Deng, he was branded a "capitalist reader." Both men were stripped of power for nearly a decade. Hu was sent to a re-education camp, where he was obliged not only to tend cattle but to eat and sleep with the sheep and horses...
When Deng emerged from exile in 1975, he got Hu out of the stables. But after Hu prepared a report charging that the government was misusing China's leading scientists as field workers, he was again purged. His report was damned as "a big poisonous weed...