Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after release of American P.O.W.s, leaving the political issues to be settled by the Vietnamese themselves. If Nixon were to win a second term, Kissinger argued, the Administration offer could well harden. In September, by the reckoning of intelligence analysts in Washington, the polls began to convince the Hanoi Politburo that a victory by McGovern, who has proposed that the U.S. should "break free of Thieu" with a unilateral withdrawal, was a poor gamble...
...tung, Chou declared that the party will turn to a collective leadership. China watchers were intrigued, however, that Chou, 74, singled out one emerging party leader as an example of the experienced younger men who could eventually take over the government: Yao Wenyuan of Shanghai, one of the three Politburo members who head the Communist Party's radical wing. Yao, fortyish, who is officially listed as No. 6 in the party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist Chinese and never denied...
...filling to be done. Something like 130 of Peking's 300 senior military men-including the army chief of staff and top officers in the air force, the navy and the logistics command-have simply dropped from public view since autumn. With just twelve active members, the Politburo is now only half its original size, although it accurately reflects the divisions in the regime between the leftist ideological hotspurs who opposed the rapprochement with the West-and especially President Nixon's visit last February-and the old-guard pragmatists who approved of both...
...wife Chiang Ching, who was the ideological power behind the radical Red Guard fanatics during the Cultural Revolution, turned up at Army Day ceremonies as No. 3 in the Politburo, after Mao and Chou. She may be jockeying for that position, however, with Yeh, who led a bloody provincial army suppression of Mme. Mao's Red Guards in 1967 and has developed no affection for radicals since...
Only when the Politburo is restored to full membership can Mao deal with Peking's fundamental problem: the succession. Much to the wonder of China watchers-and the worry of Western governments that are anxious to expand their contacts with Peking-there are no indications of who might succeed Mao, who is 78, and Chou, whom visitors have recently found looking every bit of his 74 years. Though Mao will not necessarily want to name an heir again-Lin was the third person whom the Chairman had groomed for the succession, only to have to purge him later...