Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical "Gang of Four." But widespread protests against the radicals' purge have persisted in China (TIME, Jan. 10). Then came another mysterious shock. At ceremonies in Peking's T'ien An Men Square marking the first anniversary of the death of Premier Chou Enlai, there were wall posters calling for the return to office of Chou's discredited protege, ex-Vice Premier Teng Hsiao...
Potential Rival. In Hong Kong last week there were even rumors that Teng had actually been named Premier-the post he was expected to get after Chou's death. If that was true-or even if Teng was on the comeback trail-Hua's control of the government might be less secure than Sinologists had believed. Teng was not only the archenemy of Chiang Ch'ing's radicals, who last year organized a massive press campaign against this "capitalist reader," he was also a serious potential rival to Hua, who had denounced the tough, abrasive little...
...first signs that Teng might be re-emerging as a political force came at a screening in Peking of a new documentary film titled Eternal Glory to Esteemed and Beloved Premier Chou; in the theater, a voice was heard reading the eulogy that Teng had delivered at Chou's funeral. Then, as more than a million black-garbed Chinese surged into T'ien An Men Square, sobbing, singing the Internationale and taking oaths to Chou, posters began to appear demanding that Teng be named Premier. Soon the entire square seemed to be papered with posters-almost always...
...slanderers was Hua, who is Premier as well as Party Chairman. He had held Teng responsible for the unprecedented riots that erupted in T'ien An Men Square last April, after an earlier commemoration ceremony for Chou. Mourners had become enraged when militiamen removed flower wreaths laid in his honor at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution. According to some reports, over 1,000 people were arrested in connection with the outbreak of violence. The riots were originally condemned as counterrevolutionary acts provoked by Teng and his supporters. In some posters last week, though, the riots were...
...Ofer's funeral. Speaking to the country's political elite at a crowded service in Tel Aviv, Rabin recalled how Ofer had come to him to discuss the accusations in what turned out to be their final meeting. "Your words still ring in my ears," the Premier said. ' 'Yitzhak,' you told me, 'believe me, I am not guilty of any transgressions.' I replied to you, Avraham, that I, Yitzhak Rabin, wholly trust in your innocence...