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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since late last year, "democracy wall," along Peking's broad Chang An Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China's 1978 constitution. Thousands of people sometimes came to the wall to read the patchwork quilt of personal grievances, sharply worded essays demanding more freedom, and short stories and poems. Last week the Municipal Revolutionary Committee of Peking, clearly acting at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, issued...
...DIED. Chang Kuo-t'ao, 82, one of the twelve founders of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and early rival to Mao Tse-tung for the party's leadership; in Toronto. Chairman of the C.C.P.'s First Congress and member of the party's original triumvirate, Chang came to blows with Mao in 1934 over the strategy of the 6,000-mile Long March retreat. Ousted from the party in 1938, Chang left China when the Communists took over...
...including Ford, Chrysler, Bechtel and Westinghouse, are plowing new money into Taiwan. At the end of 1978, Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves stood at $6.5 billion-not bad for a nation of only 17 million. Unemployment is a tiny 1.2% of the working population. Says Economic Affairs Minister Chang Kwang-shih: "I sense that American businessmen think that some of the uncertainties have been removed and that the environment here is one that is conducive to investment. My main problem is to keep our economy from growing too fast. We are striving for growth with stability...
Works of Beethoven and Schumann--John Hornor, baritone Patricia Zander, plano; Lynn Chang, violin; and Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Leverett...
...newly elected professors are Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Kwang-chih Chang '55, professor of Anthropology; Phillip A. Griffiths, professor of Mathematics; Heinrich D. Holland, professor of Geology; Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics; Richard D. Sidman '49, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, and Evon Z. Vogt, professor of Social Anthropology...