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...they egg each other on to battle, they also come to know and trust each other. Hence Rappaport is less a problem drama than a kind of love story. Little depicts a man who has survived by staying out of harm's way. Knowing that he is in danger of being pensioned off from his job as an apartment-house superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks from the tenant committee. Hirsch portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever might solve his problems, from a union lawyer...
Long range, though, the prospect of China's creating a modern society by following a heretical brand of Marxism constitutes a deadly ideological danger to the Soviets. They are having enough trouble as it is getting their allies, not to mention Communist movements that have not yet come to power, to follow their leadership. China's example can only encourage such countries as Yugoslavia and Hungary to continue their efforts to blend market elements into state-dictated economies, and lead out-of-power Marxist parties to think they do not have to copy the Soviet line either...
Though not in physical danger himself, Deng was eager to protect his family. He eventually was allowed to bring his children to live with him in the two-story brick home to which he had been assigned. He spent his free time reading, listening to the radio and keeping fit. Deng Rong later told Author Harrison Salisbury (The Long March) that her father paced restlessly around the house's courtyard every afternoon. "Watching his sure but fast-moving steps," she said, "I thought to myself that his faith, his ideas and determination must have become clearer and firmer, readying...
...Jiang Qing and three other leftists loyal to Mao, who became known as the Gang of Four, retaliated. In April 1976 they ousted Deng from all his offices, leaving him in the political wilderness for the third time in his career. This time he was in physical danger for a period. Deng was rescued by Military Region Commander Xu Shiyou, an old friend, who provided shelter at a resort near Canton...
...fallen behind Peking, Canton and even Chongqing and Shenzhen in embracing the reforms. Shenzhen has set up more joint ventures (150, in contrast to Shanghai's 90), while Canton, one-third Shanghai's size, has more private enterprises (100,000 vs. 90,000). At this rate, Shanghai is in danger of losing its traditional role as the commercial and industrial hub of China. "There is an evident lack of creativity and drive," complains a middle-level city official. "We may have been safe and steady, but the pace of reforms has just been too slow...