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...frantic four-day period Chou En-lai abruptly canceled most of his appointments and the entire Politburo dropped from public view, possibly because its members had been summoned to an emergency session in Peking. China's military leaders also disappeared, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made tri-jet Trident transport mysteriously crashed deep in Mongolia, the Chinese...
Nevertheless, something was obviously amiss. Five weeks ago, just after a Chinese jet with nine aboard crashed mysteriously deep in Mongolia, the entire Chinese air force was abruptly grounded; with rare exceptions, it still is. The three top military chiefs, including Army Boss Huang Yung-sheng, one of the leading scourges of the radical left, have not been seen in more than a month. The most visible man in Peking these days is durable Premier Chou Enlai, the champion of the pragmatists. Last week, in a meeting with a diverse group of 70 Americans-among them Black Panther Huey Newton...
Premier Chou Enlai, 73, leader of the moderate forces, is believed to have a powerful ally in Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, 66, who has closely cooperated with Chou in restoring order during the post-Cultural Revolution "reconstruction." Huang may now aspire to Lin's job of Defense Minister...
...still be the Chairman, but Chou has emerged as China's unquestioned chief executive officer, ruling the country through what amounts to a working coalition of old-line-and old-aged-party bureaucrats and army officers. In Peking, Chou works in tandem with Army Chief Huang Yung-sheng, 65, an earthy, untraveled man who has little in common with the urbane, sophisticated Premier...
...military dominates the Revolutionary Committees that rule at the province and district level. Army officers occupy deputy posts in several of Peking's ministries and hold eleven seats on the ruling 21-man Politburo. The fastest-rising man in China is Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng (TIME, Aug. 24), who now ranks fifth on official lists. Some radicals, by contrast, have fallen from power, particularly those who gathered around Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Among those conspicuously absent from the National Day parade: Politburo Members Hsieh Fu-chih and Chen Pota, both powerful proponents...