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Many of the first signs of a cultural crackdown were exquisitely subtle. Premier Zhao Ziyang quietly forsook his Western suits for Mao jackets. The Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders...
...urban young in China less than fully employed, and perhaps all of them sharing the disenchantment that is a legacy of the Cultural Revolution, it is small wonder that college students are said to embrace Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's views of alienation. Indeed, before the crackdown, "alienation" had become a rallying cry for those who entertained unauthorized views. According to the official press, 600 articles on alienation have darkened Chinese journals since 1978. The most celebrated essay appeared last March in People's Daily over the name of Zhou Yang, 76, a veteran of previous ideological shifts...
...rested largely on two government audits of Harvard in the late 1970's, which revealed numerous improprieties such as research costs charged to the wrong grant, and professors arbitrarily shifting staff and funds among several projects. These practices apparently were common at all research institutions before HHS's crackdown began in 1977; and throughout the two years of negotiations. Harvard's Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien has said academic research requires more flexible accounting than federal auditors realize...
...campaign is said to have been directly inspired by the need to protect Deng, physically and politically. A rumor has it that an attack upon Deng's motorcade occurred in August near the seaside resort of Beidaihe. Though he was not harmed, the incident apparently prompted the crackdown...
...ongoing FBI investigation at Cornell is one of 15, all involving a break into the Virginia-based GTE Telemail system. FBI spokesman James E. Mull said this week that the computer confiscation "was not part of a major crackdown," but merely an investigation requested by the communications service...