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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...
...unlike its predecessor, the 1974 long range document is intended as an introduction to and manual for discussion on the various alternatives open to Harvard and its host communities over teh next decade and not as a blueprint to cement Harvard's intent for certain projects...
Observers believe that the veiled criticism of Wu Teh is especially significant because the first major casualty of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 was Peng Chen, who was then the mayor of Peking. Nonetheless, few experts are prepared to predict that a new fullblown Cultural Revolution is in the offing. It is assumed that Mao, whose acquiescence would be needed for a new ultraradical campaign, does not want China's economic development or foreign policy damaged by the kind of bloody disruptions that marked the Cultural Revolution...