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Shanghai Mafia. What it all added up to was one of the most climactic episodes in China's recent history. Almost overnight, Premier Hua Kuo-feng, only last year a relatively unknown official, succeeded Mao Tse-tung as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, leader of the party's radical faction, was arrested, along with three of her closest allies. With Hua in power and the radicals in disgrace, China's moderate faction, backed by the army, seemed to have scored an astonishing triumph, one that may set China...
Crystal Tomb. Hua's elevation to Chairman of the party-if and when it becomes official-is no surprise. As Premier and First Vice Chairman, Hua has effectively headed China's government since a strident wall-poster campaign ousted First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last April. Chosen in an apparent compromise between China's bickering radicals and pragmatists, Hua dynamically directed the rescue and rebuilding efforts following July's disastrous earthquakes. He impressed both foreign observers and party cadres with his skillful handling of Mao's obsequies...
...originally made his reputation in Mao's native province of Hunan; he caught the Chairman's eye with his performance as an agriculture expert and administrator of the major central Chinese province of 50 million. The burly, amiable Premier (now in his mid-50s) is generally regarded as a moderating influence in the party; presumably he will carry on with Mao's principal policies-pragmatic independence in foreign relations and concentration on agriculture at home. As chief editor of Mao's works, Hua is in a unique position to serve as ideological arbiter of the Chairman...
Whether Hua is in firm command of the party, and whether the factions have temporarily settled their differences, may become clearer as other appointments are made. Sinologists expect Hua to give up the post of Premier. His logical successor would be Chang Ch'un Ch'iao, about 65, Vice Premier and head of the army's political department...
Such rarely bandied words as "remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even...