Word: ying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Versatile Sola Mahoney leads both the triple jumpers and long jumpers. Bennett Midlo, Ying Dat Ho and freshman basketball ace Robert Taylor round out the long jumping crew, while Bruce Brooks backs Mahoney in the triple jump...
...political gains and to accelerate the nation's New Long March to modernization. In a skillful move that further strengthened his hold on the highest level of government, Teng packed the 23-member ruling Politburo with four of his loyal supporters. Foremost among the new members is Teng Ying-ch'ao, 74, the widow of Chou Enlai, Teng's longtime patron and the first proponent of his program. Also elevated to Politburo status were three veteran bureaucrats and industrial experts who are openly committed to Teng's economic plan...
...titular successor, Hua Kuo-feng, 57, but Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who also holds the titles of Vice Chairman of the Communist Party and Army Chief of Staff. Although he ranks only third in the Peking Politburo (after Hua and ailing Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 80, the figurehead Chief of State), Teng is the principal architect of what has become known in Chinese rhetoric as the Four Modernizations?an attempt simultaneously to improve agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense. Because of the tremendous enterprise he has launched to propel the nation into the modern world, Teng Hsiao...
...both the National Assembly and Legislative Council scheduled for December 23. Up to that point, the campaign had been the most open in the island's history, with opposition candidates freely criticizing the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government. With unwitting prescience, one independent office seeker, mainland-born Chen Ku-ying, had planned to cap his campaign by erecting a billboard in Taipei that contained the simple inscription: WHERE ARE WE GOING...
...hill to line up in an honor guard. And almost instantly thereafter, appeared the Communist high command: Mao Tse-tung himself, in a baggy unpressed cotton-padded blue cloak; Chu Teh, the Commander in Chief, in the orange-tan thick woolen uniform of a common soldier; Yeh Chien-ying, the Chief of Staff, in the smart khaki-colored wool uniform of an officer; and Chou Enlai, in a dingy brown leather coat. There were only four automobiles in Yenan then, and when Mao required one, his vehicle was a converted ambulance. Out of this ambulance they now rushed, trotting pell...