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...Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing moved swiftly last week to consolidate his political gains and to accelerate the nation's New Long March to modernization. In a skillful move that further strengthened his hold on the highest level of government, Teng packed the 23-member ruling Politburo with four of his loyal supporters. Foremost among the new members is Teng Ying-ch'ao, 74, the widow of Chou Enlai, Teng's longtime patron and the first proponent of his program. Also elevated to Politburo status were three veteran bureaucrats and industrial experts who are openly...
Though the Politburo reshuffle was obviously a triumph for Teng and his pragmatist faction, the wily leader stopped short of booting his enemies from their top posts. Three Politburo members who reportedly fought against Teng's rehabilitation from disgrace 18 months ago were still at their posts last week, though their power was manifestly diminished. They were: Wu Teh, who was ousted as mayor of Peking last October; Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing; and Peking Regional Commander Chen Hsi-lien. Their survival appeared to be evidence of Teng's willingness to compromise with opposing factions, at least...
While Teng's supporters were being confirmed as Politburo members, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...
...Nikita Khrushchev ignored him when they met, despite Mao Tse-tung's accurate advice that the "little man" had "a great future ahead of him." Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, despised him, and twice her radical supporters vilified him as China's most evil "capitalist reader." At one Politburo meeting in 1975, Mao asked all those in opposition to one of his proposals to stand up. When Teng did so, the Great Helmsman looked at him coldly and reportedly said, "Since I see nobody standing up, my proposal is unanimously adopted...
...South China and the mayor of Chungking. Called to Peking in 1952, he held a variety of major posts, some of them simultaneously: Finance Minister, Secretary of the Central Committee, Vice Chairman of National Defense, Secretary-General of the Communist Party. In 1956 he was appointed to the Politburo's seven-man standing committee...