Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speakers' Corner, the voices of young orators demanding "true freedom, true democracy and true human rights" echoed through the early winter dusk. Thousands filed past "democracy wall" at the intersection of Chang An Avenue and Hsi Tan Street to inspect wall posters castigating some members of the ruling Politburo, policies decreed by the sainted Great Helmsman, the late Mao, and by implication, China's Chairman and Premier, Hua Kuo-feng...
When the campaign was at its height, Chairman Hua was silent, unseen by Westerners. With the jaunty confidence of a man in charge, Teng emphasized that there would not be an internecine party struggle and that there would be no firings from the Politburo, despite the posters calling for purges. "The party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng," he told a Japanese visitor, "is united and fully confident of carrying through the Four Modernizations...
...Teng say that there would be no Politburo dismissals, despite the posters calling for the purge of Wang and Wu? One explanation is that the posters were intended merely as a warning to hard-line supporters of the radical view who are still in the Politburo. Another is that Teng simply did not have the clout to make a clean sweep of his adversaries. Yet another is that the Vice Premier realized that a purge of the radicals would undercut elements of Hua's support-thereby leading to a potentially damaging split at the top level that could endanger...
...work in the U.S. and Western Europe? Why was it that the U.S., West Germany and Japan were so advanced, while China, with a superior system of socialism, was not? And what, by the way, did the Western correspondents think was really happening at the meeting of the Chinese Politburo then in progress...
...cent complete" Warnke said, but he warned that "some American politicians may attempt to secure the passage of their favorite programs as the price for their support" of the accord, and the recent Soviet dispatch of 16 Mig-23 aircraft to Cuba indicates "there are also some in the Politburo who want to be bought-off as a precondition" to accepting the agreement, Warnke said...