Word: hua
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China announced Hua's appointment on February 7, approximately one month after the death of Premier Chou En-lai, who had generally been regarded as the number-two man in the Chinese hierarchy behind Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Terrill said appointment of Hua over Teng seems to indicate that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is still very much in power and that China is not going back to the leftist principles of the cultural revolution, because Hua does not represent those principles. "Hau is a front runner for the premiership," he added...
Harvard sinologists expressed surprise yesterday at the appointment of Public Security Minister Hua Kuo-feng as the acting premier of China, but agreed that China's foreign policy probably will not change in the near future as a result...
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said that although he was surprised at the appointment of a relatively unknown figure, he was "not completely surprised that Teng wasn't appointed," adding that by appointing a "sufficiently neutral" Hua in a 'great deal of resistance to Teng becoming the premier, Chairman Mao seems to have given some support to the left...
...part, read the official announcement issued last week by Hsin-hua, the Chinese press agency. Soon after, it appeared again on the black-bordered front page of Peking's People's Daily; it was broadcast, preceded by solemn music, every half-hour on radio stations throughout China. In Peking, the elevator girl in an office building used by foreign journalists burst into tears when she heard the news. Headlines appeared in newspapers throughout the world, and messages of condolence started pouring into the Chinese capital. In a rare gesture of sympathy and respect, the flags at the U.S. consulate...