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...that the system he is evolving in China either ignores or defies many of the precepts most cherished by traditional Marxists (especially those running the Soviet Union). In the Chinese spirit of balance between yin and yang, Deng's second revolution is an attempt on a monumental scale to blend seemingly irreconcilable elements: state ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom. Indeed, it is almost, or so it often seems to skeptics in both the Western and Marxist worlds, an attempt to combine Communism and capitalism...
...ideological danger to the Soviets. They are having enough trouble as it is getting their allies, not to mention Communist movements that have not yet come to power, to follow their leadership. China's example can only encourage such countries as Yugoslavia and Hungary to continue their efforts to blend market elements into state-dictated economies, and lead out-of-power Marxist parties to think they do not have to copy the Soviet line either...
Special Forces play several different roles. In a conventional war, small teams of a dozen men are supposed to penetrate behind enemy lines, blend in with the natives and cut off lines of supply and communication. To train friendly forces in the art of guerrilla warfare, the Army has sent hundreds of teams to 60 nations in the past six years--more than twice as many as it sent overseas during a comparable period in the 1970s...
...called International Harvester. Last week the company (1985 sales: $3.5 billion) dropped that historic name. International Harvester, which last year sold its farm-implement business to the J I Case division of Tenneco, emerged from a nine-month-long name-lift operation as Navistar International. The new name, a blend of navigate and star, refers to the company's remaining line of business--medium and heavy trucks--and its goal of stellar performance...
...Amherst, culled Hellman's memoirs to put onstage something approximating the way she saw herself. The result is far from objective history. But it works absorbingly as ribald, poignant entertainment. One of the world's great actresses, Zoe Caldwell, enacts the writer's conversations and confessions in a blend of eerily precise impersonation (down to wearing Tea Rose, Hellman's favorite perfume) and voluble, free-spirited performance...