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...Hua 's post is in doubt...
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...
...Central Committee is of the opinion that he is a suitable choice and worthy of our trust." With those words, China's Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng last week formally announced to the National People's Congress that, as expected, he would step down from his top government post to make way for a new Premier, former Sichuan province Governor Zhao Ziyang. Hua also made it official that seven Vice Premiers, including the architect of the transition, Deng Xiaoping, would retire from their government posts; among their successors will be the Westward-leaning Foreign Affairs Minister, Huang Hua...
...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...