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...tung since her arrest early last month. By last week the official campaign of vilification had turned into a formidable bill of indictment. The increasing gravity of the accusations may be a grim prelude to a secret purge trial of the "Gang of Four" -Chiang Ch'ing and the discredited leaders of Shanghai's radicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lady Is a Tramp | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Radio broadcasts, the ubiquitous wall posters and rumors whispered to foreign diplomats offered new allegations in the unfolding tale of Chiang Ch'ing's evildoing. After an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Premier Chou En-lai in 1971, Mao's fiercely ambitious wife joined with radical Politburo Members Wang Hung-wen, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Yao Wenyuan to organize a second parallel government competing with the existing administration, while they plotted to usurp power. The gang is said to have tried to persuade China's armed militia to take over the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lady Is a Tramp | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...ailing Mao grew increasingly helpless to halt his wife's machinations. When summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she then plotted the assassination of China's new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lady Is a Tramp | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...Immediately-so that we can start ma-ing plans. I would like Congress to direct the President to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject to subsequent veto of the Congress on individual proposals. This would give tremendous substance to the whole thrust-you could go into a department and say, "This is what we want to do now. The law says it must be done, and I'm the President and I'm carrying out Congress's directives and my own commitment to the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Do': Carter Looks Ahead | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...including options) and by the diesel's traditional drawbacks-low power, hard starting, loud noise and heavy weight. But auto engineers have a major incentive, besides economy, to work at overcoming these problems. Surprising though it may seem to anyone who has trailed a smoke-belch-ing diesel truck, diesels already meet federal antipollution standards. Those standards at present apply not to the quantity of smoke but to the amount of specific pollutants in it-though if diesels start hitting the market in large numbers federal standards on smoke per se are Inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Diesel Dazzle | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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