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...occasion was a great leap forward for Deng, his shrewd brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo...
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...
...Seminary young men and women sit in freshly repainted classrooms, learning the basics of Protestantism-along with English and some other secular subjects. The seminary reopened in March, with 47 students selected from 500 applicants. It is the first school allowed to train clergy since 1966. That year Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards not only closed the place and arrested the faculty but wrecked the chapel and destroyed four-fifths of the books in the seminary's library...
...wrong toward the end, what legacy did he leave? Mao thought, says Huang. "Mao Tse-tung's thought will remain the guide for our action for a long time to come. The history of contemporary China has proved that only Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse-tung thought can save China...
Since his death 4½ years ago, Mao Tse-tung has come under increasing criticism from the comrades who succeeded him. They have spoken bluntly about the "errors" Mao made in his later years, and have even authorized the taking down of Mao statues and pictures all over China. Yet long lines still gather whenever the Great Helmsman's mausoleum in Peking's Tienanmen Square is opened to the public. What the Communist Party needed was a definitive perspective on Mao. That judgment appeared to have been handed down in a speech by a comrade...