Word: peng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical policies and set China on an irreversible course toward modernization. One way was to pack China's governing institutions with his supporters: on the eve of the anniversary, twelve elderly victims of the Cultural Revolution were elevated to the Central Committee while two other longtime Deng allies, Peng Zhen, 77, and Zhao Ziyang, 61, were added to the select Politburo. Deng could thus count on the loyalty of 19 of the 29 members of China's top ruling body...
Observers believe that the veiled criticism of Wu Teh is especially significant because the first major casualty of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 was Peng Chen, who was then the mayor of Peking. Nonetheless, few experts are prepared to predict that a new fullblown Cultural Revolution is in the offing. It is assumed that Mao, whose acquiescence would be needed for a new ultraradical campaign, does not want China's economic development or foreign policy damaged by the kind of bloody disruptions that marked the Cultural Revolution...
...Neither Peng Teh-huai, Lin's predecessor as Defense Minister until his ouster in 1959, nor Head of State Liu Shao-chi, who was purged in 1966 but has still not been replaced, was ever officially designated heir apparent, as Lin was, but each had worn the mantle of succession for several years preceding his political demise...