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...Correspondent David Aikman, Peking bureau chief from 1982 until early this year and now a member of TIME's Washington bureau, change in China is a constant experience. Revisiting the country last spring to help report the cover story, Aikman drew on observations that go back to his first visit for TIME in 1972, as well as on two other lengthy reporting trips in the 1970s. "Like all students of China's culture, society and politics, I have been at times fascinated, at times saddened by what I have witnessed," says Aikman. "For me, the most exciting aspect of China...
...with Western colonial troops dispatched to put down the uprising. Six decades later, following the collapse of a close association with the Soviet Union in ideological wrangling about the true path to Communism, Mao triggered the Cultural Revolution to turn China in on itself once again. "The one constant in China in this century has been change," says Father Laszlo Ladany, a Hong Kong-based analyst of Chinese affairs. "Change is the only certain thing...
...submarine standards of yore, life aboard the Jackson borders on easy duty. The $2 billion Tridents contain the first flush toilets in an underwater craft, and the first stairs. The air is kept at a constant 72 degrees and circulates rapidly enough to make smoking permissible. Instead of being assigned to "hot racks," or beds that rotate among off-duty personnel, each crew member has his own bunk, equipped with stereo headphones. Food is copious, though overindulgence is rarely a problem. As one crew member explained, "We have to remember that hatches out of this place are only 24 inches...
...main objection to selling stock, however, is that it is a costly, negative and ineffective way of responding to the sufferings and wrongs of South Africa. I recognize that the massive injustices of the apartheid system create a constant temptation to walk away from South Africa with some angry gesture of defiance. But if there is a moral principle that arises from holding stock in companies doing business in South Africa, it is not that we should wash our hands of the matter by simply selling our shares to someone else. Walking away will not shorten the life of apartheid...
...report it and over a public trying to fathom what it all means. The ability to manipulate public opinion was systematized under Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first President to give importance to the role of press secretary. It has become an art form under Ronald Reagan. The press's constant worry about being misled accounts for most of those acrimonious spats between White House reporters and presidential press secretaries. Larry Speakes is the latest to insist self-righteously on a narrow definition of his probity: it was the White House, not Speakes himself, that put out the misleading report that...