Word: yingchao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equipment to develop iron ore mines, were told by Chinese officials that the agreements would have to be deferred until further notice. Plans for Inter-Continental and Hyatt International to build thousands of hotel rooms have given way to other priorities. On a visit to Japan last week, Deng Yingchao, widow of the late Premier Chou Enlai, explained: "We have now realized that there were too many projects to be launched simultaneously. We must keep the balance between agriculture and light industry. One step backward is necessary for two steps forward...
...passing of Premier Chou Enlai. The ceremonies began in the hospital where Chou died of cancer at age 77 on Jan. 8. For two days his body lay in state, draped in the red flag of the Chinese Communist Party, while high officials, including Chou's wife Teng Yingchao and First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, Chou's almost certain successor (TIME cover, Jan. 19), paid their last respects. Also among the mourners were some 10,000 selected "representatives of the masses...
...seemingly inexhaustible. Like many other leaders of the Chinese revolution, he liked to work through the night. Visitors to China, even in recent years, were often ushered into Chou's presence after midnight, finding him tireless and perpetually alert in conversations that lasted until daybreak. His wife Teng Yingchao, a prominent revolutionary in her own right, admitted that she was unable to persuade him to slow his exhausting tempo even after his declining health forced him to delegate some responsibility to his heir apparent, Vice Premier Teng...
...whom she had been allowed to hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have managed to stay revolutionary at such an elderly age." As for Chou, "We've all decided that he's the sexiest...
Chou, despite his silken sex appeal, has married only once. Small, soft-spoken Teng Yingchao, whom Chou met in Tientsin in 1919 during a street demonstration, is often at Chou's side when he hosts foreign dignitaries...