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That struggle will evidently continue to be led by Mao's relatively youthful (56) designated heir, Hua Kuo-feng, who is both Premier and Party Chairman. At week's end reports out of Peking said that Hua had been re-elected Premier, while Party Vice Chairman Yeh Chien-ying, 79, would also be China's equivalent to chief of state. Earlier, there had been speculation that the third member of the ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might...
Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
From the stage comes the joyful wallop of She Loves You (yeh, yeh, yeh). Behind the footlights, the four young New York musicians recruited for the venture-and rehearsed daily for nine months to master the music-play and sing about as well as mere Beatleoids might be expected...
...audience," he says. "The kind of audience that will see this show will then go to Annie or A Chorus Line or The Wiz." Asks Producer Krebs: "Who is to say that Beatlemania is not what a significant portion of the theater will turn out to be in 1987?" (yeh, yeh, yeh...
...CULPRIT TENG, 500,000 people turned out to celebrate his escape from the gallows. At the same time, Peking television showed film clips of China's new ruling troika. At Chairman Hua Kuo-feng's right hand sat Teng; at Hua's left was Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying...