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Even the recent whereabouts of China's venerable Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, has been something of a mystery. For the past three months, Mao has been out of Peking and on the move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over...
Continuing Conflict. Is Mao still in control? Has Chou lost his once unquestioned power? Is Chiang Ching plotting to take over after Mao is gone from the scene? In the West, at least, there are no definite answers to these vital questions. But there are numerous signs in China of serious problems of disunity and factionalism. The theoretical journal Red Flag this month carried a frank admission of trouble within the party ranks. One article spoke of "indiscipline or anarchy existing in many places" and warned that "a small number of party members are asserting 'independence' from...
...specific problem is a continuing conflict between the party and the regular army. Since August the Chinese press has been pointedly repeating Mao's famous dictum that "the party commands the gun," again a sign that the reverse threatens to be the case. In more recent weeks the press has displayed a clear worry that the army's authority is too great. "The People's Liberation Army must subordinate itself to the centralized leadership of the party," People's Daily sternly editorialized earlier this month. "We must absolutely not permit the army to become an instrument...
Death Revealed. Liu Shao-chi, 75, former Chinese chief of state, purged during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. A close associate of Mao's through a quarter-century of civil war, Liu was named Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943. Liu was considered to be Mao's heir apparent, but his identification with bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent...
...marked the first time that they have been seen together since the current Politburo was formed 13 months ago. Equally important, some 60 officials whose names had not been mentioned in public since the great purges of the Cultural Revolution took their place alongside such radical firebrands as Madame Mao and her close associate in the Politburo, Yao Wenyuan...