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...campaign to deglorify Mao Tsetung, the poster dared for the first time to criticize the late Great Helmsman by name for serious political mistakes. Indirectly, in a move that could have ominous repercussions, the poster also criticized Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's chosen successor as Party Chairman and Premier...
While Mao was being nailed to the wall, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing received flattering references in the same poster. Mao, it said harshly, "because his thinking was metaphysical in the last years of his life and for all kinds of other reasons, supported the Gang of Four in raising their hands to strike down Comrade Teng Hsiao-p'ing." Although the commentary omitted specifics, few people who read it were unaware of the reference to one of the strangest and most important events in recent Chinese political history...
...event occurred on April 5, 1976, three months after the death of Premier Chou Enlai. The populace of Peking discovered that the flowers they had placed in Chou's honor at the Martyrs' Monument in T'ien An Men Square had been removed. In protest, tens of thousands of citizens marched on the square, but were repulsed by militiamen. The incident erupted into the most remarkable public demonstration in Peking in 30 years: before it ended, angry marchers had set fire to automobiles and a nearby building. Countless protesters were bloodied and hustled off to jail...
Nonetheless, the vote was a genuine victory for Premier Begin and his Washington negotiators, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. It was Dayan who had phoned Begin, saying "Let's for once be ahead of the Egyptians. Let us be the first to say yes, and leave Sadat to fight his own way." Begin agreed, and the Cabinet fell into line by a vote...
Hackett didn't stop there. While most Harvard students were relaxing at their favorite vacation spots this summer, Bobby was working on further proof that he is one of the world's premier swimmers. That's something he's been working on since his adolescence when he dominated the national age-group record books. Bobby kicked off his summer by taking two thirds and a fifth at the AAU National Championships, qualifying him for the U.S. team at the World Games in Berlin...