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From the huge, ocher-red viewing stand of Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square, China's newly ordained Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng confidently smiled and waved. Below were assembled more than 1 million representatives of China's proletarian masses, waving placards, paper bouquets and red flags. The well-organized 80-minute demonstration, which was shown on television around the world, marked the official unveiling of China's post-Mao leadership alignment. It also celebrated the end of at least one chapter in a bitter six-week power struggle that saw China...
Grizzled Veterans. With Hua on the viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan-had simply been dropped from the Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long...
...Hsien-nien, 69, senior Vice Premier and, until his promotion last year, China's Finance Minister. Li remains the country's chief economic planner. Some China watchers anticipated that Li would be named Premier, but Hua, at least for now, holds that job as well as the party chairmanship...
...apparently had been arrested on Oct. 7, were the "devils, demons and goblins who falsified Chairman Mao Tse-tung's directives and conspired to split the party"-obvious allusions to charges that the radicals had forged quotes from the late Great Helmsman and had tried to assassinate Hua Kuo-feng in a futile attempt to seize power...
...continuing crackdown on the leftists suggested that Hua Kuo-feng, assisted by moderates and army commanders, was moving rapidly to consolidate his grip on China's tentacles of power. The new party Chairman's next task will probably be to establish his own trademark, creating a distinctive and inspiring style of rule. That may turn out to be difficult for a man who has proved himself so far to be a competent administrator but hardly a charismatic leader in the mold of Mao. Nonetheless for the moment at least, Hua seems to be the triumphant beneficiary...