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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confident of victory-some would say too confident -Carter in July assigned twelve bright young men, led by Atlanta Attorney Jack Watson, 38, to work out a blueprint for his first term as President. They have spent months consult ing with him and hundreds of experts for ideas about who should be hired for a Carter Administration and what policies they should pursue. Drawing from a computer bank of more than 1,000 names, Watson has already given Carter a lengthy list of possible appointees to the Cabinet and other key jobs. Now Watson and his team are finishing...
...world, marked the official unveiling of China's post-Mao leadership alignment. It also celebrated the end of at least one chapter in a bitter six-week power struggle that saw China's four top radical leaders, including Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing, disgraced and placed under arrest. Peking editors waxed absolutely poetic about the new spirit of China: "Everywhere in our motherland, orioles sing and swallows dart...
...initial focus of last week's campaign against the radicals was in Shanghai, which until recently had been their power center. Visitors to the city reported seeing giant caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing and the other purged officials; they were depicted as the four heads of a huge snake that hung from an enormous hammer held aloft by a worker and, at the same time, was being fried in a gigantic...
...carefully organized carnival of denunciation then moved to Peking. With cymbals clanging, bands blaring and rockets exploding overhead, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched over the cobblestones of T'ien An Men Square dutifully shouting "Ta-tao Chiang Ch 'ing [Down with Chiang Ch'ing]." Two of the women who were closest to Mao joined in the anti-Chiang Ch'ing chant. One was Mao's favorite niece, Wang Hai-jung, a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; the other was American-educated Nancy T'ang, the late Chairman's trusted interpreter. Radio Peking...
...Daily charged that "those who engage in conspiracies and intrigues are the real 'capitalist roaders' in the party." In other words, the purged quartet were not really leftists but rightists in disguise. The radicals had attacked as capitalist roaders former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the man once slated to succeed the late Chou En-lai as Premier, and thousands of other victims of their own ideological campaigns. Some China watchers speculated that the charges against Chiang Ch'ing and her clique could be a first step toward rehabilitating Teng...