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"The Central Committee is lit in two" declared the iper 'Red Flag'. Once more ie delicate balancing between irious factions of the leaderip is breaking up under the essure of the working class thome and internationally. : The appointment of Hua Kuong as "interim" Prime Minister • brought the split out into the sen. The arch mediator and comiomiser Chou En-lai is really being issed now as the controversy Bes.

Hua has been picked by the Mitical Committee as the least promised with the factions indemned since the Cultural trolution. He is not regarded as a iftist' and himself came under tack during the Cultural Revolbon and again in the summer of 14. : He was made Minister of Public curity in January 1975. How ng he keeps his present job spends on how the factional muggie develops.

The obvious candidate for hou's job was Teng Xioa-ping who id been carrying out Chou's sties since his illness, especially i regard to Chinese foreign policy. I is Teng who is the main archiit of the ludicrous spectacle of K-President Nixon's visit now iking place and of Chinese support • the pro-imperialist FNLA forces • Angola.

However, it is for his views on ternal politics that Teng is now mates of a instat ramnaion capitalist road".

A real attack on China's fore ign policy would entail criticising the Stalinist policy of peaceful coexistence which no-one in the leadership has any intention of doing.

The first signs of tension were in March and April last year when articles appeared by the so-called "radicals" Chang Chun-chiao and Xao Wen-yuan from the Shanghai group of the Party leadership who began the attack on "pragmatism" especially in the field of education where a reversion to pre-cultural revolution selection and elitism was in progress.

Now there is an open campaign against Teng, once a close associate of Liu Shao-chi and his "rightist" supporters, he extent of the attack has recently broadened to include education, science, culture, agriculture, economics and the army.

Teng, "the second Chinese Khrushchev" is accused of trying to minimise the role of the Party and of the class struggle in favour of more specialisation in technical fields, stability, unity and development.

Within its Stalinist limits, the Chinese bureaucracy is incapable ot breaking out of the restrictions of the politics of chase coxistcountry' Sections of the leadership may feel the workers of Shanghai or the militant youth of Peking breathing down their necks, but it is only when these groups are mobilised independently of the bureaucracy domampatio enrialict demande

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ITERNATIONAL NEWS the price of copper - for which Zambia is dependent for over 90% of its export earnings - Kaunda is literally driven into the arms of the South African bankers.

At the same time Vorster's pressure on Smith has not met with success. Smith is miles away ever