Word: hua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world at large, China's Hua Kuo-feng, a moderate, aborted a prospective coup by radicals and succeeded Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whose death at 82 posed the classic problem of power transfer in a totalitarian nation. In the Middle East, Syrian President Hafez Assad gained new stature by forcibly bringing to a halt the civil war in Lebanon involving rightist Christians, left-wing Moslems, and their Palestinian allies. Seriously set back, and at least temporarily under control of Arab moderates, the Palestine Liberation Organization seemed more amenable to making compromises at a new Geneva conference...
...Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with past principles; with you in charge I am at ease." Days after Mao's death the gang altered the final instructions to read, "Act according to the principles laid down." The forged quote was published in several...
...gang was so confident of the plot's success that he had a photographer shoot "standard portraits" of the gang for publication when it took office. The paper further charged that in their plot to usurp state power, the four were prepared "to kill" certain people-presumably Hua and other members of the Central Committee...
...unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by last-ditch supporters of the discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
...independent confirmation exists of the capital crimes she is said to have committed. Still, her claim to be Mao's ideological heiress, combined with her backing of the Shanghai radicals' bid for power, was amply sufficient to bring about her downfall. She had to be discredited before Hua could put forward his own claim. Indeed, Hua's legitimacy as party leader rests in large part on official stories that Mao had given him a deathbed benediction...