THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 FEBRUARY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015024
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 7, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
February 7, 1976
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Lebanon:
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China: The party's left wing appears to be making
a determined effort to forestall the formal
designation of Teng Hsiao-ping as premier.
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Notes: Jordan-USSR; Portugal; Italy (Pages 5 and 6)
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CHINA
The Left wing of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party appears to be making a deter-
mined effort to forestall the formal
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designation of Teng Hsiao-ping as premser.
According to a Western press report, a
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said
today that Public Security Minister Hua
Kuo-feng has been appointed "acting
premier."
Hua 's appointment leaves unclear
the status of Teng, who is first vice
premier and who has been filling in for
Chou En-Zai for over a year.
Hua is the sixth ranking vice premier and the
politburo member in charge of agriculture. He is
not considered a member of the party's left wing.
?The leftist attack is also aimed at discredit-
ing officials who will play an important role in the
post-Chou En-lai succession process, especially
those who were rehabilitated in the last few years.
The vehicle of the leftist offensive is a debate
over educational policy and personal attacks on the
minister of education.
An article in People's Daily on February 6
criticizes those who want to raise educational stan-
dards in the universities--a veiled reference to the
education minister, himself a rehabilitated offi-
cial--but concentrates its fire on the "capitalist
roaders inside the party" who were "exposed" during
the Cultural Revolution but have failed to change
their views.
The frequent references to "capitalist roaders"
in the party have particular significance for Teng
Hsiao-ping, who was branded during the Cultural Rev-
olution as "the number-two man in the party taking
the capitalist road." The article acknowledges
that such people are currently "in power" and are
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trying to reverse the policies of the Cultural
Revolution. An earlier article attacked unnamed
officials overthrown during the Cultural Revolution
but who now are back in power. The party's left
wing opposed Teng's rehabilitation in 1973 and has
taken occasional propaganda slaps at him ever since.
Since Chou En-lai's death on January 8, there
have been signs that leadership meetings have been
held in Peking, presumably to fill party positions
leftAvacant by the deaths of top party officials.
Although it is not certain whether the meetings
are still in progress or whether any firm decisions
have yet been reached, there has been no official
announcement of a new premier, and Teng has not
appeared in public since Chou's funeral on January
15.
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Italy's Christian Democrats are insisting that
Aldo Moro line up more solid parliamentary backing
for his proposed economic program before forming a
one-party caretaker cabinet.
The Christian Democrats had earlier offered to
form a cabinet on their own only if Moro could per-
suade the other three center-left parties to vote
in favor of a package of emergency economic measures.
The Social Democrats agreed, but the Socialists and
Republicans offered only to abstain. Conservatives
in the Christian Democratic Party feared that form-
ing a government under these circumstances would
leave the party exposed to criticism if the govern-
ment program failed to improve the economic situa-
tion. They have asked Moro to try again to persuade
at least the Republicans to support the economic
package. If Moro succeeds, the Christian Democrats
are apparently still willing to form a government.
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