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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with "bad elements" who had been "smuggled" into high positions. Under the pretext of setting higher standards for jobs, the new leadership is likely to purge all those suspected of complicity with the so-called Gang of Four conspirators led by Mao's ardently left-wing widow, Chiang Ch'ing (TIME, Jan. 3). If the four had not been arrested, Hua said, they would have "split our party and country and touched off a major civil...
...plastered on public buildings and humble dwellings, on fences, cow barns, tool sheds and much of the other available wall surface in China. The ubiquitous presence of these uniquely Chinese ideological weapons-wall posters-testified to the relentless campaign being carried out by party leaders against Chiang Ch'ing, the widow of Mao Tse-tung. Every week brings a graphic new twist to the pictorial record of her wicked ways. As the leader of the radical "Gang of Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured...
Sole Guardians. There is a politically significant difference in the meaning of the two quotes. According to People's Daily, the "principles laid down" citation was concocted to indicate that only Chiang Ch'ing and her supporters were licensed to interpret Mao's instructions, thus becoming the sole guardians of his heritage. Among the gang's wrong "principles," the paper charged, was seizing power illegally. Chiang Ch'ing had aspired to nothing less than the party chairmanship. Only three days after Mao's death, one member of the gang "arranged for people to write...
...details of Madame Mao's love of luxury appear every week for the benefit of China's 800 million men and women who live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects...
...endless ridicule of Madame Mao's "criminality" and "stupidity" has been accompanied by press and radio reports in China's provinces accusing Chiang Ch'ing's supporters of widespread sabotage and inciting to riot. If only a fraction of these charges are true, there may be far greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing...