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...every trace of those tumultuous years has been assiduously repaired. The lovely kilometer-square campus of spacious groves, fields and ponds is quiet, bucolic and rather sleepy. Appropriate to the gentle pastoral setting, it was the radical student faction which lost out in 1967. The army of Gen. Huang Yung-sheng, Lin Piao's closest associate, intervened province wide on the side of law-and-order and Party control...
...September. In one frantic four-day period Chou En-lai abruptly canceled most of his appointments and the entire Politburo dropped from public view, possibly because its members had been summoned to an emergency session in Peking. China's military leaders also disappeared, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made tri-jet Trident transport mysteriously crashed deep in Mongolia...
...takes up his duties in New York. In all, five of Peking's delegates have held posts outside China (in Moscow, London, Cairo, New Delhi and Ghana). Some are veterans of the swings that Chou frequently made through the Third World. The only woman delegate, Wang Hai-yung, 34, has never been outside the Middle Kingdom. But then, Miss Wang has special qualifications: she speaks English, she has been deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's protocol department and she is reputed to be the niece of none other than Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Nevertheless, something was obviously amiss. Five weeks ago, just after a Chinese jet with nine aboard crashed mysteriously deep in Mongolia, the entire Chinese air force was abruptly grounded; with rare exceptions, it still is. The three top military chiefs, including Army Boss Huang Yung-sheng, one of the leading scourges of the radical left, have not been seen in more than a month. The most visible man in Peking these days is durable Premier Chou Enlai, the champion of the pragmatists. Last week, in a meeting with a diverse group of 70 Americans-among them Black Panther Huey Newton...
Premier Chou Enlai, 73, leader of the moderate forces, is believed to have a powerful ally in Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, 66, who has closely cooperated with Chou in restoring order during the post-Cultural Revolution "reconstruction." Huang may now aspire to Lin's job of Defense Minister...