Word: change
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, Peking last week identified by name "the Big Four Brigands" and "the Gang of Four" who had been the target of the wall-poster attacks: Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Shanghai Mafia" colleagues, Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen, Vice Premier Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan. The New China News Agency announced that the Party Central Committee, headed by Hua, had "adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party." Despite those ominous words, most Sinologists believe...
...Chang Ch'un Ch'iao, a Vice Premier and onetime candidate to succeed Mao, a man who many foreign observers mistakenly believed had become a kind of bridge between the rival factions...
Whether Hua is in firm command of the party, and whether the factions have temporarily settled their differences, may become clearer as other appointments are made. Sinologists expect Hua to give up the post of Premier. His logical successor would be Chang Ch'un Ch'iao, about 65, Vice Premier and head of the army's political department...
...Benefit Gala Concert--Jordan Hall, Boston--8 p.m.--program of Purcell, Mendelsshon, Bach (Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, featuring Lynn Chang '75), Beethoven, and Villa Lobos. Info...
Third in the line was Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, about 65, Vice Premier of the state council, political commissar of the People's Liberation Army and the man said to be acting secretary-general of the Communist Party. There is quickness and intelligence in his eyes and a darting intensity that suggests a gift for calculation. Chang has a reputation among Westerners he has met for being opinionated and untactful while displaying an intellectually sharp cutting edge...