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Weiss said a major effort is underway to raise money to build a hospital at My Lai, site of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers...
...replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long and close associations with China's late pragmatic Premier Chou En-lai will have pre-eminent influence...
...antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime favorite to succeed Chou En-lai as Premier, for erroneously arguing that "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it can catch mice." Teng's sin was suggesting that the color of the cat (meaning correct ideology) was less important than such practical results as building the economy...
With or without Teng himself, the way may be open for a revival of his views. Tlie editorial that explained the fall of the brigands also praised the economic program of Chou En-lai-the pragmatic, steady approach to development, emphasizing material incentives and technological skills-which Teng, opposed by the radicals, had tried to carry out. The lineup of leaders appearing with Hua at T'ien An Men seems very much in the Chou-Teng mold. They are the cats that, black or white, are primarily interested in catching mice...
...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...