Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng still speaks, in a shrill tenor, with the thick accent of Szechwan, a province of central China known for its spicy cuisine, gentle climate and soaring, mountainous scenery. Little is known of Teng's early life or, for that matter, of his private life today. He is believed to be the son of a landlord. He was born in 1904 in Hsieh-hsing, a village near China's wartime capital of Chungking. His given name was Kan Tse-kao, which he changed to Teng Hsiao-p'ing (an underground alias that means Little Peace) when he joined the Communist...
...modernization: Raise the quantity and raise the quality. When automation is raised, manual labor will be reduced. The advanced countries of the world, no matter under what systems, have all taken this road. Are they laborers? They are called productive forces; that is, they are laborers...
...measure of private farming to give peasants the initiative to produce more food. In a statement that would later be cited as proof that he was an "unrepentant capitalist reader," Teng declared: "Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." Mao was not informed of the farming plan, and testily inquired, "Which emperor decided this...
...struggle with the Gang of Four: I let the Gang of Four grab my tail and give me a sound flogging. Perhaps you comrades would say that it was Chairman Mao who relieved me of my former jobs and dismissed me from office. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so. I would rather call it a decree of fate. Chiang Ch'ing used to laugh at me, saying that my head was bullet-shaped and couldn't wear official headgear securely ... As long as class struggle exists, there will be persons like the Gang...
...sinister implications and past abuses, is a device of Executive authority. Security on normalizing relations with China was maintained for six months, and one of the reasons was that Carter penned a marginal note on his early instructions to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, saying that the matter was to be limited to four people besides himself. The handful of men who worked out the scheme to buy dollars and raise interest rates were equally devoted to secrecy. When Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal heard that one of his assistants had picked up the scent, he phoned...