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...With Hua on the viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan-had simply been dropped from the Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long and close...
...Goblins. For the 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...
...Wang Hung-wen, fortyish, the youthful ex-textile worker and Vice Chairman of the party who only recently had been made No. 2 man in the Politburo...
...Wen-ching Winnie Li, lecturer on Mathematics, who now teaches Math 1, said yesterday that students who fell behind in the fall semester of last year's course did very badly on the final exam--"you cannot learn math in one night...
Next to Hua was the handsome, enigmatic No. 2 man in the Politburo, Wang Hung-wen, wearing a uniform that signified his place on the party's military affairs commission. Wang's youth-he is only about 40-made him seem almost out of place among the nine other, much older leaders in the line. His brown eyes are bright and hard, radiating the charisma of a leader; he moves with flowing, athletic grace and there is the feel of fine steel and energy in his handshake. He seems ready, even eager for the challenges and testing...