Word: huang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit to Peking used to be an airport greeting by Premier Chou En-lai and the "cordial conversation" with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Now there is a third. In recent weeks, ranking visitors from Rumania and North Korea have met not only Mao and Chou but also General Huang Yung-sheng, 64, Chief of Staff of China's People's Liberation Army. Last week when the heads of state of South Yemen and the Sudan came to town, Huang acted as co-host with Chou, who has accorded the general a rare compliment. Said Chou...
Chou should know. In a country where Mao once said that "the gun must never be allowed to command the party," the army has, in fact, taken almost complete control. China watchers in Hong Kong reckon Huang now to be the second most powerful military man in China, after Defense Minister Lin Piao, who is Mao's heir apparent...
...pointing a black automatic pistol. New York Detective James Ziede, part of Chiang's security detail, saw the man and grabbed his arm; the assailant's shot, apparently aimed at Chiang, struck the glass door but missed the Vice Premier. The attacker was identified as Peter Huang, 32, a Taiwan-born Chinese who claimed to be a member of the World United Formosans group. Police also arrested another Chinese, Tzu-tai Cheng, who had joined the scuffle as Huang was arrested...
...Huang: But what's printed in the Soviet press represents the government's policy...
...Huang (incredulously): Here? They write what the government wants...