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...already a party vice chairman and the government's first Vice Premier, was given the powerful, long-vacant post of Chief of Staff of the army. Chang Chun-chiao, 64, a Vice Premier, became the army's political commissar, a post once held by none other than Mao Tse-tung...
Teng suddenly reappeared in April 1973 as a Vice Premier. He has since been photographed with Mao, sat in for Chou at a dozen or so state banquets for foreign dignitaries, and last year led the Chinese delegation to Manhattan for a U.N. special session on raw materials...
...enemy." Although some Western experts argue that Teng is overrated and that his power depends almost completely on Chou's patronage, most feel that if Chou's health should deteriorate further, Teng will be the front runner for the premiership; if a collective leadership should follow Mao's meeting with Karl Marx, Teng will almost certainly be a major participant...
...Chien-ying, 76, the new Minister of Defense (a post that had been vacant since the death of Lin Piao in 1971). A member of the Communist Party since 1927, Yeh drafted the military plan for Mao's legendary Long March. Though he is a grizzled old soldier, he shares the firmly held belief of Mao and Chou that the army must always be subordinate to the Communist Party. Yeh once told Henry Kissinger that he had never dreamed that the Chinese revolution would come so far. Although Yeh's advanced age is an obstacle, he too could...
...Chiang Ching, 60, the onetime movie actress and Mao's fourth wife, is the most prominent of the radicals who rocketed to power during the Cultural Revolution. Many have long regarded her as a leading candidate to succeed her husband. From her seat on the Politburo, she has wielded considerable power and was probably a major sponsor of the anti-Confucius campaign. But the military distrusts her, and the moderates hate her vengefulness and capriciousness. In China's current sober climate, Chiang Ching has become the butt of salacious jokes and comparisons with the notorious 7th century Empress...