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During China's latest ideological campaign, intended to discredit the ideas of the ancient sage Confucius and the reputation of former Defense Chief Lin Piao,* some of these commanders came in for stinging rebukes. At least five powerful army generals, including Li Te-sheng, the Politburo's sixth-ranking member, were attacked by name on radical wall posters for, among other things, "warlordism...
...Cantabrigia Orchestra is playing a big end-of-summer concert in Sanders Theater Thursday night at 8 p.m. for free. Ch'en Liang-Sheng of the University of Geneva will conduct a program of Debussy, Mahler and Schumann...
Foreign travelers in China last week reported seeing wall posters that were sharply critical of Li Te-sheng, military commander of the Shenyang Military Region and, as No. 6 man in the Politburo, the highest official to be attacked so far in the current movement. It seemed likely that the assaults on these officials were part of an attempt by radicals to undermine the power of the law-and-order-inclined military leaders who took over in many provinces during the chaos of the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution...
Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area...
GALLERY TALK: Lin-sheng Chang, graduate student in Oriental Art, will give a gallery talk on the Wang collection, April 1, 3 p.m., meet in Gallery XIII