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...Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level party cadre. "He has good party credentials and is an intellectual...
...sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
...went to call on one of the old soldiers I had met in Yanan days ? Peng Zhen, who after my visit was elected Chairman of the National People's Congress. Burly, bald, still vigorous at 81, he was abused during the Cultural Revolution, confined under house arrest, rusticated. Now, restored to honor, he is a member of the Politburo again, just a notch below the six-man Standing Committee. In the Great Hall of the People...
...constitution restores many of the fundamental rights that were guaranteed in the 1954 charter but were scuttled by Mao in 1974. In theory, at least, the document guarantees freedom of speech, assembly and religious belief, as well as freedom from arbitrary arrest. But as Peng Zhen, vice chairman of the congress, pointed out, individual rights must not infringe upon the interests of the state. Apparently anxious to avoid the spread of militant labor unions like Poland's Solidarity, the drafting committee eliminated guarantees from the old charter that gave workers the right to strike...
Harold Brown reported that during a meeting with Huang Zhen, head of the Washington liaison office of the People's Republic of China, Huang was particularly critical about our having changed strategic planning from a "2½ war" capability to a "1½ war" capability. When Harold pointed out that the other war plan had been designed for use against the People's Republic of China, the criticisms were attenuated...