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...Connor explained that it was in many ways an eye-opening experience. "We went to a commune. People there are born, live and die on that commune. There's no picking up and moving in China. There's little night life. The people go to sleep at 9 p.m. and are up at 5 in the morning--to farm...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
Among convicted officials, Guan is one of the very few to suffer the extreme penalty of execution. Most of the others have been dismissed from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...
...pattern of special advantages that are enjoyed by officials in China's supposedly privilege-free society is revealed in case after case. Even the strict population-control regulations can sometimes be flouted by those with power. In Guangdong province, for example, one commune party secretary's wife gave birth to a fifthchild-three more than the maximum allowed. When the overly fertile wife and her husband were both elevated to higher ranks, local townspeople were prompted to express their envy. Cadres' lives, they complained, are filled with "double happiness-a growing family and promotion...
...article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book also turns up such groups as Eckankar, the I AM Sanctuary, the Integral Yoga Institute and the Church of Cosmic Consciousness. The Sirius commune in Amherst, an offshoot of the Findhorn Community in Scotland that prospered supposedly because of divine guidance, is organizing most of the New England communities into a "network of light...