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Those slogans, chanted by Red Guards as they paraded down the streets of Peking in 1967, signaled the downfall of China's pragmatic chief of state Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch'i); Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who regarded Liu as a rival for power, had deemed him to be the nation's chief enemy. Last week the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting secretly in Peking, reversed Mao's verdict and effectively rewrote the past 13 years of Chinese history...
...official communique issued after a week of deliberations, the 201-member committee declared that the labels of "renegade, traitor and scab," attached to Liu by a 1968 Central Committee resolution, were now invalid. Liu, who reportedly died in disgrace in 1969, would henceforth be regarded as "a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary and one of the principal leaders of the party and state...
...posthumous rehabilitation of Liu was another triumph for one of his closest allies-China's all-powerful Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Nor was that all. The Central Committee announced the resignation from the Politburo of four radical holdovers from the Maoist era who had participated in the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution campaign against Liu and Deng. Purged were Wang Dongxing, Mao's former bodyguard, Vice Premiers Chen Xilian and Ji Dengkui, and Wu De, a former mayor of Peking...
There was a neat, and perhaps inevitable, symmetry to the party decisions. Although hardly a liberal, Liu was a pragmatic bureaucrat who, unlike Mao, was willing to sacrifice ideological purity for the sake of economic development. Liu's posthumous rehabilitation thus completed the return to power of bureaucrats like Deng who were purged by Mao. At the same time, the removal of Deng's four chief enemies in the Politburo presumably gives him more freedom to install a new leadership team that will carry out his policies, now as well as after his death...
...seem to improve the economic well-being of a country nor accept responsibility for the social costs his programs demand. Can Harberger justify the number of victims of his development schemes by the far smaller number of beneficiaries. Rosalyn Lezberg Grant Barnes Kent A. Libbey Peter B. Lundett Andrew Liu Erin M. Sheridan Karin Wentz