Word: hua
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That struggle will evidently continue to be led by Mao's relatively youthful (56) designated heir, Hua Kuo-feng, who is both Premier and Party Chairman. At week's end 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...
Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
...insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary for the liberation of Taiwan...
...group, shooting photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive, the organization and the commitment of these people for modernization," says Kennedy. Caroline, a Radcliffe sophomore, and Michael, a Harvard sophomore, both plan to write term papers on their China jaunt...
...reached the conclusion this will not solve the problem of the psychological barrier between us and Israel, because I'm inviting the five big powers as if I am going to hide behind them. And the Israelis have no confidence in Brezhnev if he comes. [China'sChairman] Hua Kuo-feng supports the Arab cause, and the Israelis will not be happy with him. At that same time I was thinking of praying [during Greater Bairam, the Feast of Sacrifice] in Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. This is one of the three holiest places in the Muslim world...