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...case of the missing Chairman seemed all but solved by default last week after a New Year's tea party in Peking's Great Hall of the People. The reception, televised to the Chinese people, was held by the Communist Party's Central Committee and marked by a conspicuous absence: nowhere to be seen, after 36 days out of the public eye, was Party Chairman Hua Guofeng. Instead, the gathering's host was Secretary-General Hu Yaobang, 65, who has been rumored to be the man who would displace the missing Hua. Hu is a close...
Schools were closed because of a teachers' strike. Worst of all, the city was un able to pay $15.5 million in debt, becoming the first major city to default on its financial obligations since the 1930s...
...past year, convention business has flourished, school desegregation has proceeded peacefully, and a modest construction boom has begun. For the first time in years, the Cleveland Browns even had a shot at the Super Bowl. Most impressive of all, the city last month finally dug itself out of default...
...storm sewer system regularly floods Cleveland basements. Swimming pools were closed last summer because the city could not afford to fix broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says Voinovich: "I feel like one of those rocket ships that are ready to take off. We're on the pad, but we need some fuel...
...Western eyes, the Soviet Union has contributed to the creditworthiness of the East bloc economies because no one believes that Moscow would allow one of its allies to go bankrupt. True, North Korea defaulted on a Western loan in 1975, but bankers attributed Moscow's failure to bail out Pyongyang to Sino-Soviet rivalry. The Kremlin has helped Poland in the past and could do so again, for example, and today it is flush with funds. Thanks to foreign sales of gold and oil, the Soviets have paid off $2.5 billion in private bank loans. Thus far, however, they...