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...ministers appointed to the State Council, China's Cabinet, are overwhelmingly pre-Cultural Revolution bureaucrats or men personally close to Chou. The Premier's old wartime buddy Yeh Chien-ying, 76, moved into the crucial post of Defense Minister. Another oldtimer and Chou crony, Li Hsien-nien, 67, will oversee finance and trade. Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, resurrected from Cultural Revolutionary disgrace 21 months ago by Chou, presumably with Mao's approval, continued his astonishing comeback. He became the first of Chou's twelve Vice Premiers as well as one of six Vice Chairmen...
...many of Chou's diplomatic functions. Teng is one of four high-ranking officials (referred to by some Sinologists as "the Four Horsemen of Peking") who are expected collectively to assume Chou's manifold responsibilities if the Premier should pass from the scene. The others: Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled former Finance Minister, whose current role is overseeing economic development plans; Chang Chun-chiao, thought to be a member of Mme. Mao's leftist clique, who could take over many of Chou's day-to-day office duties; Chen Hsi-lien, a bull-like army...
Chou's clique within the Politburo includes his deputy, Li Hsien-nien, and his old confidant Yeh Chien-ying, 73, a former marshal who was bumped up several places to the No. 4 position behind Mme. Mao. Yeh was with Chou in 1945 when General George C. Marshall was trying to mediate the civil war between the Nationalists and Mao's Communists. His youthful secretary at the time was Huang Hua, who arrived in New York last week as Peking's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Yeh is expected to serve as chief of staff...
...rear area," crooned to Albania that "our hearts are closely linked," promised North Korea to "share weal and woe and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy." Last week at a Peking dinner for visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien made an all-purpose pledge to "stand by the Algerian and other Asian, African and Latin American peoples and the revolutionary people throughout the world...
...gave no details of the agreement, which, it said, was signed by deputy Premier Li Shien-nien of China and Deputy Premier Le Thanh Nghi of North Vietnam...