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...Service. Even more striking is Chairman Hua's espousal of Teng policies that twice incurred the wrath of Mao, the Great Helmsman. For the past year Mao's heir has attempted to put into effect some of the pragmatic economic and educational reforms that Teng consistently advocated. Hua apparently now hopes to exploit Teng's administrative skills and his program for the modernization of China, while avoiding the appearance of assailing the memory of the revered Mao. This may require a Chinese conjuring trick, considering Teng's reputation as a bureaucrat who gave little more than...
...Teng was stripped of all his posts, driven by the Red Guards through the streets wearing a dunce cap, and dispatched to seven years in disgrace. In 1973 Teng made his first surprising reappearance, at a banquet in Peking. He soon became Vice Premier and the closest collaborator and heir presumptive of Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou's health had begun to fail, Teng headed a delegation to the United Nations in 1974-a hint that he might take over the Premier's role as China's main negotiator with foreign leaders...
Divorced. Christina Onassis, 26, daughter of Aristotle Onassis and principal heir to his multimillion-dollar shipping fortune; and her second husband, Alexander Andreadis, 32, heir apparent to his father's banking and industrial empire; after two years of marriage; in Athens...
...Israeli, observers were pleased that ex-General Sharon, another outspoken hawk, had to settle for the Agriculture Ministry instead of the job he wanted: a Cabinet-level position in charge of antiterrorist activity. Dayan sits at Begin's right hand in the Knesset and is already mentioned as heir apparent to Begin, who was hospitalized with a heart attack last March. This is bound to create conflict with Weizman, who last year told friends that he would be Israel's next Premier...
...Borbon y Parma, 87, patriarch of the Carlist family of pretenders to the Spanish throne; of a heart attack; in Chur, Switzerland. Distant cousins of King Juan Carlos, Xavier's family fought and lost two civil wars for the crown during the 19th century; the prince was heir to their romantic lost cause. Although the Roman Catholic Carlists supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo and Traditionalist Prince Sixto...