Word: liu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao-chi as "one of a handful of party leaders who took the capitalist road...
Officials at the University of California at Santa Cruz last week decided to award Alice Liu and Rosalind Thorpe their degrees posthumously at graduation ceremonies in June. Both students were murdered and their bodies dismembered last month, apparently after being picked up while hitchhiking between the campus and their apartments...
...Liu Shao-chi, then a leading Communist, urged the adoption of Western and Soviet ways of organizing society. He was for building an elite, who would tell the masses what to do. He favored much higher pay for skilled workers and intellectuals than for the ordinary worker. To get out production, he relied on material incentives and individual prestige rather than on serving the people...
...would normally be considered impossible. He alerted the people to the dangers of a growing bureaucracy. His famous big-character poster. "Bombard the Head Quarteriers," urged the youth to bombard with their criticisms even "the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road." This meant, first of all, Liu Shao...
...Neither Peng Teh-huai, Lin's predecessor as Defense Minister until his ouster in 1959, nor Head of State Liu Shao-chi, who was purged in 1966 but has still not been replaced, was ever officially designated heir apparent, as Lin was, but each had worn the mantle of succession for several years preceding his political demise...