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...massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument, or playing Ping-Pong...
...Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, the shrewd party bureaucrat who over the last year has performed many of Chou En-lai's duties, was promoted to First Vice Premier and elevated to vice-chairmanship of the Communist Party (there are five other Vice Chairmen). The appointment accelerated Teng's spectacular rise from utter disgrace during the Cultural Revolution (when he was branded "the No. 2 capitalist reader," after Lui Shao-chi) and gives him an official position that accords with the great power he wields. Many observers feel now that Teng has moved to first in line to succeed...
...unmistakable trend toward moderation did not resolve all of China's problems. On the crucial issue of succession, for example, some large questions remained unanswered. Teng Hsiao-ping would after Chou probably lead the pack of successors should Chairman Mao pass from the scene. Yet Teng is himself an old man; moreover, the comparatively young radicals who attacked him during the Cultural Revolution still occupy high party positions and could clearly make strong bids for the party chairmanship themselves...
...Ford. The Secretary had instructions for the President on how to talk and act. At the ramp in Vladivostok when the new President met the Russians it was like a movie scene. They were all there in their fur hats, shaking hands and slap ping backs and grinning as if it were a class reunion. And it was, in a way. These were Henry Kissinger's boys, drawn together in part by his wit and wisdom...
...mood around the green felt table in the Great Hall of the People was almost jocular last week as Henry Kissinger sat down opposite Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping during the American Secretary of State's seventh visit to China. "How many tons?" Teng asked, pointing to the thick looseleaf briefing books that Kissinger had brought to the conference table. "Several," Kissinger said with a smile. Responded the Chinese, emphasizing that his associates came with no notes or briefing books: "All we have is guns and millet...