Published: Challenge, Vol. 13, No. 21, October 21, 1976.
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PEKING, Oct. 12–It is reported that Chiang Ching (Mao’s widow), Chang Chun-chiao,Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan have been arrested here, while Hua Kuo-feng appears to have been chosen chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. It is apparent now that the so-called “moderates” (right-wingers) have consolidated their power here. The four arrested are the so-called “radicals” among the Chinese leadership, but in reality they allied with the rightists during the Cultural Revolution of the mid-sixties to destroy the Red Guards and the real left in China.