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...pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo, Hua was also obliged to resign as head of the Central Committee...
...leadership will probably go a step further and reveal specific errors. If they do, the way should be clear for a sixth party plenum next summer at which Mao's place in history will be more clearly defined, and out-of-favor Mao followers like Party Chairman Hua Guofeng may face a purge...
...party leaders; they have frankly admitted that there is widespread disillusionment as to the party's ability to achieve results in just about everything. One problem is the persistent appearance of disunity at the top, brought about most recently by Deng's unceremonious dumping of Hua Guofeng as party chairman in late December. Deng sought to allay rumors that China was in the grip of a new power struggle by telling a group of Japanese visitors last week that "our situation is the most stable it has been since the 1960s...
Next day Chinese newspapers gave prominent play to Hu Yaobang's apparent new role as the man actually in charge of party affairs. The official Communist organ, the People's Daily, spoke of "democratic reforms" and the abolition of lifetime tenure in high office-which Hua had once been presumed to enjoy...
Foreign observers who examined the reasons for Hua's fall from grace reached varying conclusions. The Chairman-who still holds the title until the Central Committee takes it from him-had erred in disputing the breadth and speed of Deng's modernization program. Also a factor: his increasingly embarrassing connection with the discredited Cultural Revolution. It was Hua, after all, who as Premier suppressed a now celebrated demonstration against the Gang of Four in Peking in 1976. His slide from power may have been accelerated by the Gang of Four show trial, which concluded its hearings last week...