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...current wall poster campaign has roots that date back to the Manchu dynasty (1644-1911). when imperial proclamations were pinned to city and palace gates. In the pre-World War II Kuomintang Republic, Communists used posters to inflame the local population against "the landlords who eat our flesh" and "the traitors who sell China to Japan." Poster polemics reached a new level of sophistication during the Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Red Guardsmen used them to attack "capitalist readers" like Teng Hsiao...
...inflating the Japanese economy: A growth rate of 7% [current rate: 5.7%] is unattainable. I see no reason to make unreasonable efforts to try to achieve this goal. No matter what new stimulatory measures are launched at this time, it would not be feasible to produce effective results before the end of the fiscal year [March 31,1979]. We will be working out measures to prevent a fall in exports, since this will have a big bearing on economic recovery here...
Leonid Brezhnev, 71, is patently not a well man; according to Western intelligence experts, his various ailments may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition. But whatever the current status of his health, the Soviet Union's President and party chief last week demonstrated that he is still firmly in control at the Kremlin. In a shuffle of top-level Communist Party jobs, he elevated one of his staunches! allies to the 13-member ruling Politburo, gave the boot to a prominent nonloyalist and further consolidated his hold on the country's decision-making apparatus...
Chief object of the board's current scrutiny is Chicago's first citywide school desegregation program, which was unveiled earlier this year by Hannon, 46, a feisty and effective administrator who took office in 1975 after serving as one of the city's assistant superintendents. Hannon's plan, known as Access to Excellence, avoids mandatory busing. Instead, it permits pupils to transfer to any Chicago school with vacancies if the transfer aids desegregation. More significant, ATE seeks integration by creating magnet schools that offer advanced programs to qualified students who live anywhere in the city...
...enjoyed a scintillating afterlife in the vision, imagination and, it must be said, the commerce of modern man. The treasures from his Valley of the Kings resting place, shown in packed museums around the world, have inspired countless designers of art, jewelry, fashion and frippery over the decades. The current exhibition, the "Treasures of Tutankhamun," may well have been viewed by 7 million Americans by the time it concludes a threeyear, seven-city tour of the U.S. in San Francisco next September...