Word: yeh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chou's clique within the Politburo includes his deputy, Li Hsien-nien, and his old confidant Yeh Chien-ying, 73, a former marshal who was bumped up several places to the No. 4 position behind Mme. Mao. Yeh was with Chou in 1945 when General George C. Marshall was trying to mediate the civil war between the Nationalists and Mao's Communists. His youthful secretary at the time was Huang Hua, who arrived in New York last week as Peking's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Yeh is expected to serve as chief of staff...
...noon on July 9, Kissinger and his aides landed at a deserted airfield on the outskirts of Peking. They were met by Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, a high-ranking Politburo member and two Foreign Office officials. Also on hand was Huang Hua, one of Peking's top experts on U.S. affairs, whose move to Canada as Ambassador to Ottawa had been delayed because of the Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment...
...Faculty resolution was final as death, yeh, final as death. No one attempted to renegotiate. The death knell tolled and no one did a thing," he said...
...while you can, yeh...
...when you eventually get to the hotel, again you need at least two managers. One to go in and deal with the hotel people, who inevitably have the whole thing screwed up. The other to stay in the bus and attempt to hold the players back by saying, 'yeh you'll be in your rooms in five or ten minutes if you just wait...