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...country's 29 provinces and administrative districts, mammoth rallies of 100,000 or more people were staged; in Peking (pop. 8 million) more than 4 million Chinese took part in such rallies. The press was filled with rhetoric praising Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party Politburo...
Significant Meaning. Hence Peking's propagandists harshly labeled the T'ien An Men riot "an organized, premeditated and planned counterrevolutionary political incident." Teng himself was not accused of having organized the incident. Nonetheless, said the official report to the Politburo, the unnamed organizers of the riots wanted to "stir up disorder in the whole country." In Peking and elsewhere, great prominence was given to the workers' militia rather than to the regular army as the group responsible for maintaining order. The militia, said the official press agency, "feared neither hardship nor death" in fighting the "class enemy...
...could have anticipated the events that accidentally triggered Hua's appointment. Most extraordinary was the apparently spontaneous nature of the demonstrations that preceded the Politburo's decisions. The massive unruly crowds that gathered at T'ien An Men Square last Monday were celebrating Ch'ing Ming (meaning, pure and bright), China's traditional springtime festival for honoring the dead. For several days before the protest, tens of thousands of wreaths dedicated to Chou had been placed near the massive Martyrs' Monument in the middle of the square. Inexplicably, the wreaths were removed, apparently...
...military and party bureaucracy to stage another comeback (he had been rehabilitated by Chou in 1973 after having been purged "forever" during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69). That prospect now seems impossible, even though Teng was allowed to retain his party membership ("if he behaves," according to the Politburo announcement). The residual honor was probably intended to mollify his remaining supporters. Explains Tufts University Sinologist Donald Klein: "That way, he can still be called 'comrade,' rather than just 'mister'-no small matter in China...
...purge of pro-Lin Piao elements in Hunan. Possibly as a reward for his services to the Chairman, he was called to Peking to run the secretariat of the State Council, handling, in particular, China's agricultural affairs. In 1973 he was elevated to the 22-member Politburo; early last year he became one of the country's twelve Vice Premiers and head of the Ministry of Public Security, China's extensive but little-known police and militia apparatus...