Word: hua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hua 's post is in doubt...
What ever happened to Hua Guofeng? That question occupied the center of the Peking stage last week, over shadowing that other current piece of political drama, the trial of the Gang of Four...
There is little question about the verdict. Both Party Chairman Hua Guofeng and former Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping have publicly declared the group of four to be guilty. In the past, Hua has given assurance that the four would not be executed. But last week official Chinese Spokesman Zeng Tao claimed that reports of Hua's remarks "were not entirely accurate" and did not rule out the death penalty...
...times cooperated with them. Indeed, the excessive length of time needed to prepare for the case was probably due to internal party disagreements over just how much the trial should be allowed to reveal. Those who want to limit the possible effects on the reputations of Mao and Hua are said to have won out. Nonetheless, as one skeptical Chinese intellectual put it last week, "No matter how secret they keep the trial, everybody knows that without Mao there would have been no Gang of Four...
...Chairman Hua says that China will soon begin to demonstrate "the superiority of socialism," but at the moment it is all too easy to see the inefficiency, the mediocrity produced by lack of competition, and the sluggishness of the bureaucracy. The national travel service is both rigid and expensive: it refuses, for instance, to make a hotel booking unless a visitor agrees to bear the cost of hiring an interpreter to escort him from the airport to the hotel. Many visitors do, of course, need such a service, but those who do not must take it anyway. Reservations...