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Just below the ledge are two cottages, one for Peng Dehuai, who would become Defense Minister, one for Liu Shaoqi, who would become President. The three cave dwellings above and the two cottages below made the ruling group; they met as neighbors, friends, brothers, as they planned the revolution to come. The lesser two were persecuted to death; the reigning three were all to die of natural causes in a nine-month period of 1976, at least two of them knowing their revolution had misfired, and the largest of them all, Mao, insane...
...constitution restores many of the fundamental rights that were guaranteed in the 1954 charter but were scuttled by Mao in 1974. In theory, at least, the document guarantees freedom of speech, assembly and religious belief, as well as freedom from arbitrary arrest. But as Peng Zhen, vice chairman of the congress, pointed out, individual rights must not infringe upon the interests of the state. Apparently anxious to avoid the spread of militant labor unions like Poland's Solidarity, the drafting committee eliminated guarantees from the old charter that gave workers the right to strike...
...Chinese are also working to solve some of the infrastructure problems. Peng Pang, deputy director of Shenzhen's External Economy and Technology Office, points proudly to the city's construction bustle as proof that there will soon be adequate telephone and road service. Says a British engineer in Hong Kong: "Shenzhen may look chaotic now, but all this digging means that by next year all the basic utilities will be installed...
...young scholar (Fu Peng) passes the door of a farmer's daughter (Zhao Yanxia) and starts the usual boy-meets-girl talk. The situation progresses, and they burst into song, both in falsetto, until a matchmaker comes along and provides the mandatory happy ending...
...radical policies and set China on an irreversible course toward modernization. One way was to pack China's governing institutions with his supporters: on the eve of the anniversary, twelve elderly victims of the Cultural Revolution were elevated to the Central Committee while two other longtime Deng allies, Peng Zhen, 77, and Zhao Ziyang, 61, were added to the select Politburo. Deng could thus count on the loyalty of 19 of the 29 members of China's top ruling body...