Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowning the Teng festivities in Washington this week is a gala entertainment at the Kennedy Center for the Vice Premier and 600 selected guests, including Washington's Government and business elite. They will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...
Even as his countrymen prepared to usher in the Year of the Goat, China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing was getting ready to leave for his historic visit to the U.S. Just four days before his departure, he took time out for a wide-ranging interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, who was accompanied by TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark. The interview, initially scheduled for half an hour, stretched to 80 minutes in the Sinkiang Room of the Great Hall of the People on Peking's T'ien An Men Square...
...only possible for each individual to express his point of view. No country can impose its views on another. But we believe in what Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai said repeatedly: that from the point of view of global strategy and international politics, even where there was no normalization between China and the U.S., what we are faced with is stark reality. Reality cannot be changed by any person's subjective views...
...have noted that we already declared on many occasions that we will continue to take Mao Tse-tung's thought as our guiding thought. What is more, many of our basic principles are still based on the tenets put forward by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou. For instance, the development of relations between our two countries was promulgated some time ago by Chairman Mao himself, and the issuance of the Shanghai communique during the visit of President Nixon in 1972 was something personally looked after by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou. This was on the basis of our global strategy...
...Four Modernizations [program] was put forward by Chair man Mao and then was made pub lic through Premier Chou in his speech at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1974. At the same time, we have always considered that Chairman Mao was not beyond fault. We cannot demand of any great personage that he be faultless. To demand that is not in keeping with the thoughts of Marx or of Mao Tse-tung himself. Then there are many things that Chairman Mao could not foresee during his lifetime because of the limitations of the condi tions then existing...