Word: kang
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Teng has more enemies than Chou ever had. Many party veterans recall that in the mid-1950s, Teng rose to power by in effect stepping over the dead body of the pro-Soviet Kao Kang, who was then a key member of the Politburo and supreme ruler of the provinces in Manchuria. Kao reportedly committed suicide in a Peking prison after Teng's brutal denunciation of him at a 1955 Central Committee plenum. But if Teng is worried about any long knives, he has not shown it. He is even indulging his old epicurean tastes. Just recently his favorite Szechuanese...
...Kang was put under house arrest, and later died. Khrushchev's opinion is that "most probably, Mao had him strangled or poisoned. Mao was capable of such things, just as Stalin was." Why did Stalin betray Kao Kang? Khrushchev's judgment is that the Soviet dictator figured that sooner or later Mao would have learned on his own that Kao Kang had been informing on him and, if that had happened, Mao could have accused Stalin of fomenting opposition to the Chinese government. "Stalin wanted to win Mao's trust and friendship, so he took reports about...
...responsibility, raising two to major Cabinet posts. He has also permitted a relaxation in the K.M.T.'s ruthless demand of blind obedience. The government these days comes in for lively scolding from youthful and dynamic critics such as Chang Chun-hung, 34, editor of The Intellectual magazine, and Kang Ning-hsiang, 34, a former gas-station attendant elected to the legislative assembly as an independent. But critics can only go so far: one of the most notable of them, Writer Li Ao, remains in prison (since 1971) for his harassment of the regime...
...last paragraph of the article, it was implied that the phrase "the mistreating and misleading of Mrs. Mao by the Chinese Department" originated in the H-RCSA Newsletter's editorial when in fact it was merely a reference to the same phrase used by Mr. Jeffrey Kang '76 whose letter to the H-RCSA Newsletter editor was the basis for the editorial...
...Peking's new press and propaganda chief; another is Chang Chun-chiao, party boss of Shanghai, who recently has been working out of Peking as China's man in charge of relations with foreign Communists. That job was formerly handled by Kang Sheng, a leftist Politburo member who may have been one of the earliest casualties of the political infighting that boiled up over the summer...