Word: teh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teng and his supporters. In some posters last week, though, the riots were hailed as "a brilliant page in the history of the Chinese Revolution." The real culprits, the posters declared, were the people who forcibly put down the April demonstrations. These included the present mayor of Peking, Wu Teh, a close associate of Hua's. Said one poster in T'ien An Men Square: THE CAPITAL'S 8 MILLION PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST WU TEH...
...uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured the crowd that the new Chairman had the blessing of the old. "With you in charge, I'm at ease," Mao is said to have told...
Died. Chu Teh, 90, legendary commander of China's Red Army during the '30s and '40s; in Peking. Chu Teh studied at the Yunnan Military Academy and in 1922 went to Berlin to study Marxism; there he met Chou En-lai and joined the Chinese Communist Party. Back in China, he joined forces in 1928 with Mao Tse-tung, who was organizing the Red Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against...
...protesters broke into an army barracks bordering the square and set it afire. Black smoke could be seen drifting over the opulent tiled roofs of the adjacent Forbidden City and into the drizzly gray sky of North China. Early in the evening Peking's mayor Wu Teh addressed the churning mob through powerful loudspeakers, ordering them to disperse. Thousands of militiamen and soldiers marched into the square to restore order. In all, more than 1,000 people were arrested, and throughout the night 1,000 militiamen stood guard with fixed bayonets at the Martyrs' Monument to prevent another...
...Iraq has gratefully received more than $1 billion of arms aid from Moscow since 1973. In an effort to counterbalance U.S. influence in Iran, Moscow signed an agreement with Teh ran last February that may ultimately involve $3 billion worth of Soviet industrial and agricultural projects...