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...Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will be sent to a special "cadre school," one of the reform camps for ideologically wayward leaders, there to spend long hours studying Mao and Lenin and laboring in the fields...
...Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor from the Vice Premier's vengeance...
...Scotland Yard pushed its investigation of the London deaths, suspicion centered on Bulgaria's security service. Both Markov and Kostov had been well-known intellectuals in Bulgaria, with friends in the Politburo. Before defecting in 1969, Markov had won national acclaim as a writer and TV commentator. One of his later plays, The Assassins, dealt with a plot to kill a general in a police state. His defection, and his subsequent BBC and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, had been an embarrassment to the Sofia government and triggered a shake-up in its propaganda establishment. The 1977 defection of Kostov, formerly...
...with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat, six party intellectuals took the unprecedented step of attacking the Politburo in Le Monde...
Then in August came the first signs of an attempt at appeasement. Politburo Member Paul Laurent, a respected liberal in the party leadership, published a book defending the secrecy of top-level meetings ("The true freedom of a director is to debate tranquilly"), but conceded some "faults and insufficiencies" in party administration. The ultimate rehabilitation came from Marchais, in a speech televised from the Fête de I'Humanite last week. There are, he declared firmly, "no protesters in the French Communist Party"; there are only loyal "comrades who discuss." Contradicting his earlier condemnation of the critics, Marchais...