Word: inge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outbreak of democratic feelings-orchestrated by Teng Hsiao-p'ing...
...masses feel some anger, we I must let them express it." With I those words, spoken to a visiting Japanese politician, China's diminutive Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing put an official stamp of approval on the extraordinary eruption of political expression that had gripped Peking for the past two weeks. In an atmosphere reminiscent of London's lively Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, the voices of young orators demanding "true freedom, true democracy and true human rights" echoed through the early winter dusk. Thousands filed past "democracy wall" at the intersection of Chang An Avenue...
...popular base of support should he choose to restructure China's leadership by seizing the premiership. When a British journalist asked a group of Peking citizens whom they would vote for as Premier if there were free elections, they quickly shouted back the answer: "Teng Hsiao-p'ing! Teng Hsiao-p'ing!" Teng himself dismissed the calls for his elevation in an oblique, Olympian answer that was worthy of Mao himself: "This is a normal thing and shows the stable situation in our country. To write big-character posters is allowed by our country's constitution...
...like "fascist" and "dictatorial" were used to describe Mao's rule. One poster attacked Mao openly for having purged Teng and suggested that Mao had been involved in the activities of two of Peking's now most reviled political figures, Mao's wife Chiang Ch'ing and former Defense Minister Lin Piao. Another poster called for the nullification of the April 7, 1976, Central Committee resolution that had purged Teng and elevated Hua, and demanded that the Politburo now redefine the T'ien An Men Square demonstrators as revolutionaries instead of counterrevolutionaries...
...would do well to emulate. Given all this, foreign embassies began to flash home word of major impending developments, including perhaps the possibility of a new line-up in Peking's Politburo. Whatever happens, the results seem likely to secure further the power of Teng Hsiao-p'ing...