Word: crackdowns
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Still, the Kremlin had plenty of invective left for its enemies at home. In arresting Churbanov, 50, Brezhnev's son-in-law and First Deputy Minister of the Interior from 1980 to 1984, Moscow continued its crackdown on official misdeeds. Gorbachev has repeatedly attacked lax ethical standards under Brezhnev, who died in 1982, and has given top priority to rooting out corruption. If convicted, Churbanov could face 15 years in prison or even death for accepting bribes...
Amazing, perhaps, but like any radical surgery, however necessary, inevitably painful. The new leanness of U.S. business means, above all, a crackdown on heavy payrolls. A large portion of the layoffs from restructuring have taken place in manufacturing. From 1979 to 1986, total U.S. manufacturing employment declined from some 21 million jobs to 19.1 million. But partly because of this slimming down, U.S. manufacturing productivity -- hourly output -- has risen by an average of 3.8% annually over the past five years, compared with 1.5% in the '70s. But no such productivity improvement is yet evident outside of manufacturing. Says Treasury...
Ever since students in China began pressing for democratic reforms last December, thousands of their compatriots studying at U.S. colleges and universities have closely watched their progress. Even so, the over 14,000 Chinese students in the U.S. kept mum about the demonstrations and the subsequent government crackdown. Last week the silence ended. While their fellow students in China protested the latest crackdown on reforms with their signatures, some 1,000 Chinese students in the U.S. made their feelings known in a dramatic and unprecedented gesture of their own: they signed an open letter to the Communist Party hierarchy questioning...
Even before Hu's ouster, the crackdown on dissent was under way. Early last week three prominent intellectuals were singled out for "bourgeois tendencies." On Monday it was announced on television that Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, charged with defaming party leaders and slandering socialism, had been dismissed from his post as vice president at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, where the student protests began in early December. Fang's boss Guan Weiyan was charged with failing to keep Fang in line and was similarly dumped from his job. Writer Wang Ruowang, scolded for maintaining liberal ideas, was expelled...
Despite the new crackdown, Deng vows that China's economic reforms will continue. "Reform should be carried out in an orderly way," he said last week. "That means we must be bold and cautious." Caution is now assured, but whether the new climate will sustain boldness is another matter. It seems reasonable to assume that the reforms already under way will continue. But it appears unlikely that Deng's China will take any major steps forward for some time...