Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent months China has appeared to pull back on its economic and political reforms, prompting China watchers to question whether Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, is still in charge. Secretary of State George Shultz flew into the Middle Kingdom to see for himself during a ten-day Asian trip and found the Chinese bent on convincing him that only the pace of reform had slowed. At one point, however, Deng showed that the best defense was a good offense. He tweaked Shultz by alluding to Iranscam and the Tower report, saying, "By engaging in politics and by running the government...
Laughing heartily, Deng said, "As regards the troubles here, they're almost finished, but maybe it will take years. They existed for a long time...
...still uncertain whether Deng's free-market economic reforms are seriously threatened by the current power struggle. While a freeze has been imposed on new economic initiatives, General Secretary Zhao insisted last week that those already in place are "irreversible." But despite such statements, signs of a rollback are cropping up. In the northeastern province of Hebei, the local radio station recently carried a report that peasants with "muddled ideas" have suspended free-enterprise experiments until the political air clears. "Some who have raised capital to set up ((private)) factories dare not set them up now," the report said. Since...
China's power struggle is likely to continue at least until the 13th Communist Party Congress in September. In the meantime, Deng and the other reformers will be trying to push their people into top posts, while Peng Zhen and the conservatives try to turn back the changes that Deng has introduced in recent years...
Alarmed by continuing anarchy and military threats to his ally, the Amal militia, President Hafez Assad attempts to impose order on the chaotic Lebanese capital. -- A power struggle breaks out in China that threatens Leader Deng Xiaoping. -- Mikhail Gorbachev' s glasnost worries Eastern Europe' s aging rulers. -- A life sentence for terrorism in Paris...