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...expanded in any way." That statement seemed to confirm the initial Western interpretation of the possible Chinese objective: a swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and equipped with the latest sophisticated Soviet hardware...
...pragmatist faction, the wily leader stopped short of booting his enemies from their top posts. Three Politburo members who reportedly fought against Teng's rehabilitation from disgrace 18 months ago were still at their posts last week, though their power was manifestly diminished. They were: Wu Teh, who was ousted as mayor of Peking last October; Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing; and Peking Regional Commander Chen Hsi-lien. Their survival appeared to be evidence of Teng's willingness to compromise with opposing factions, at least temporarily, to achieve the unity necessary for the arduous push toward modernization...
...been victims, like Teng himself, of Mao's frequent purges. T'ao Chu, once the party boss of Kwangtung province, had been hounded to death by Mao's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, while former Defense Minister P'eng Teh-huai was purged in 1959 for policy differences with Mao. P'eng's persecution was officially attributed to the Gang of Four, but as millions of Chinese know, there was no "gang" in 1959. Because Mao himself was P'eng's judge and jury...
Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), told 150 people at teh Kennedy School ARCO Forum last night that although he has no "philosophical hangups" about labor forming a third party in America, social activists should try to reform the Democratic Party first...