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...states of Eastern Europe. Andropov expressed no particular warmth toward General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's military ruler. Next came such allies as Cuban Party Chief Fidel Castro and Afghan President Babrak Karmal. They passed by briskly, exchanging only a few phrases with Andropov. But when Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries came to a halt for three minutes while the two men talked volubly through an interpreter. The tall, stooped Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward...
Harold Brown reported that during a meeting with Huang Zhen, head of the Washington liaison office of the People's Republic of China, Huang was particularly critical about our having changed strategic planning from a "2½ war" capability to a "1½ war" capability. When Harold pointed out that the other war plan had been designed for use against the People's Republic of China, the criticisms were attenuated...
...wrong toward the end, what legacy did he leave? Mao thought, says Huang. "Mao Tse-tung's thought will remain the guide for our action for a long time to come. The history of contemporary China has proved that only Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse-tung thought can save China...
...Huang softens his criticism by suggesting that responsibility for what went wrong should not rest solely with Mao. "If we impute all the mistakes committed by our party to Chairman Mao, this does not conform to historical facts. What Comrade Deng Xiaoping said is right: we old party members shared our merits in setting up a new China. Now it is unfair to shift all mistakes to one person, as though we have no responsibility...
When Deng, in a 1978 interview, discussed Mao's inadequacies, he suggested that the old man had been 70% right and 30% wrong. Huang's assessment though lacking in specifics, follows that ratio, and Western diplomats in Peking last week interpreted the speech as a trial balloon. If those masses who visit the Tiananmen tomb do not accept the critique, the 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...