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...none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with a mind as keen as mustard...
...Yangtze and helped push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region's transformation to a Communist society, including land redistribution and campaigns aimed at checking corruption, bureaucracy and waste...
...been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev's insistence on greater efficiency in the military. Under Gorbachev, declared one West European diplomat in Moscow, "there will be no overspending...
...Chagall returned to Russia for what he thought would be a brief visit, only to be trapped there for eight years by war and revolution. Named by the Soviets as arts commissar for Vitebsk, he headed for a time the People's School of Art, where the faculty included the avant-gardists Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. Chagall's vision of a school that would encourage every tendency ran afoul of Malevich's exclusive faith in abstraction. In time Malevich and his followers seized the place in the name of Suprematism and its militant modernism...
...SACKED. Shi Yunsheng, Chinese navy commander, and Yang Huaiqing, navy political commissar; over the recent Ming-class No. 361 submarine accident that claimed the lives of all 70 crew members; in Beijing. According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the admirals were fired for "improper command and action" during the accident, the cause of which is still unknown. The dismissals follow the high-profile sackings of top Chinese officials in April over the mishandling of the SARS outbreak on the mainland...