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...proletariat" meant that a tightly organized Communist Party was to be the exclusive dominating force in transforming society. Among the millions attracted by this prescription were two young Chinese, named Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping, who saw in it a way to change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading society, even when portions of the party balk at carrying out his reforms...
...enrolled in Peking University, where he studied Chinese literature and was elected chairman of the student union. Returning to Shanghai after finishing school, Pan joined the city's propaganda department and rose quickly. "Living with peasants for eight years," he reflects, "I saw how poor and backward our country was. The poverty shook us up and made us determined to change China's face...
...Stuart arrives, putting his charitable impulses to the test by trying to help Edward, and is driven out. Harry and Midge stumble into Seegard by mistake, which results in the exposure of their illicit affair. When he returns to the comparative serenity of London, Edward casts a baffled look backward at all he has experienced: "In a way it's all a muddle starting off with an accident: my breakdown, drugs, telepathy, my father's illness, cloistered neurotic women, people arriving unexpectedly, all sorts of things which happened by pure chance. At so many points anything being otherwise could have...
...Haiti's $480 million annual budget, may also dry up. The U.S. is now in the process of examining Haiti's human rights record as a precondition to releasing $56 million in aid earmarked for the country. Duvalier's harsh response to the recent protests was a "giant step backward," says a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince. In an effort to make amends, former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estimé traveled to Washington last month to meet with State Department officials. The Duvalier government promptly announced that it was undertaking an investigation of the Gonaïves school principal's death...
...couldn't lay off the word. In a four-page statement, he reached for it eight times. In 1984 he had "pointed our party toward the future." For '88, he pledges "to help move our party and our country into the future." Why? Because even now "we are drifting backward into the future...