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...radicals (TIME, Oct. 25), China had been roused to full fighting pitch against them. The marches and mass rallies seemed carefully designed to fuel the myth of a spontaneous, popular uprising against the discredited radical "antiparty clique," as well as to build up a wave of support for Hua Kuo-feng, who was officially proclaimed last week as Mao Tse-tung's successor in the role of Party Chairman...
...wall-poster attacks: Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Shanghai Mafia" colleagues, Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen, Vice Premier Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan. The New China News Agency announced that the Party Central Committee, headed by Hua, had "adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party." Despite those ominous words, most Sinologists believe that the four radicals had only been purged and not executed...
Since Mao's death, Hua has assumed leadership of the Communist Party, and many believe has presided over the purge of the "gang of four," leaders of the radical faction that is opposed to Hua and his moderate supporters...
Fairbank responded to a question from the audience by saying that he could not estimate the security of Hua's political position. Terrill said, however, that he considers Hua's position secure, because his radical rivals have been dispatched with apparently little protest popularly...
Despite the fact of Hua's simultaneous occupation of the top posts in the party, government and the state, it is generally agreed that the consolidation of power in his hands, even if not temporary, is unlikely to result in a revivication of the cult of personality which made Mao the dominant figure of China...