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They say that the new Treasury boss arrived in the U.S. a penniless immigrant and worked his way up to the chairmanship of a major corporation. Why such a successful capitalist would walk away from a $500,000 a year job simply to work as a poorly-paid government official is difficult to understand, unless, perhaps, he has special plans for all those printing presses in the Treasury building...
...true-or even if Teng was on the comeback trail-Hua's control of the government might be less secure than Sinologists had believed. Teng was not only the archenemy of Chiang Ch'ing's radicals, who last year organized a massive press campaign against this "capitalist reader," he was also a serious potential rival to Hua, who had denounced the tough, abrasive little bureaucrat for his "counterrevolutionary line...
...kitchen, where Mathilde announces she is pregnant. Laughing, teasing each other about their eccentricities, they sing together of the future, when the 20th century will disgorge the unborn Jonah into a future remodelled for his benefit. Here on the farm they have found a retreat from the capitalist world in the communal spirit that has given them hope again...
Statehood "wouldn't make a big economic difference" he added, "except to be a rationalization of the labor markets in a capitalist sense...
...Capitalist trade and technology are also welcome, but Viet Nam's leaders aim to develop an economy that matches their military power primarily by their own means. For its skittish Asian neighbors, the tasks Hanoi has set for itself provide some consolation. Winning Southern support and developing the economy are likely to preoccupy Ho's heirs for some years to come...