Word: lien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
...charity, Americans joining with Europeans, Catholics with Protestants. What outside relief came in, came through the missionaries; where we located them on our travels they were beleaguered-assailed by wasted men, frail women, children, people head-knocking on the ground, groveling, kneeling, begging for food, wailing, "K'o lien, k'o lien"("Mercy, mercy"), but pleading really only for food...
...signs that Teng's purge is being extended to next echelon radicals. For the past two weeks, Peking's walls have been plastered with posters denouncing the so-called Mini-Gang of Four, consisting of Peking's mayor Wu Teh; General Ch'en Hsi-lien, the regional commander of the capital military district; Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region; and the late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals...
...poor farmers met in a ratty, ramshackle cabin in Lampassas County, Texas, to discuss their future. Those men and women, the founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when all the balance of labor...
These maneuvers were also calculated to erode the authority of Peking Regional Commander Ch'en Hsi-lien, who is now ostensibly Fu's superior. Analysts believe that Teng Hsiao-p'ing is gunning for the commander, who is said to have opposed Teng's return to power. If so, there is little doubt of the outcome. In reports of a reception held last week for the 1,000 workers who built Mao Tse-tung's mausoleum, Teng was listed as No. 3 man in the Chinese hierarchy, while Ch'en had slid from fifth to 14th place...