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Wang's appointment marks an attempt by Deng Xiaoping and other top Communist Party officials to convince Chinese intellectuals that the repression of the Cultural Revolution will not recur. Writers, however, remain skeptical. Despite his advocacy of creative freedom, Wang has proved a staunch supporter of party policy on the arts...
Stephenson said he expected to find a replacement sometime this month, but added that he realized the difficulty in attracting a prominent statesman in such a short period of time. Names being bandied about by officials as possible replacements include Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Chinese Premier Deng Xiao Ping, and Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid...
...University Graduate School of Journalism, was based on three issues: "Viet Nam Ten Years Later" (April 15, 1985); "My God, What Have We Done?" (July 29), a special section commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing; and the 1985 Man of the Year cover story on China's Deng Xiaoping (Jan. 6, 1986). The judges cited TIME for "meshing pictures, artwork, headlines and text . . . to tell the story with clarity, efficiency, drama and vigor." Commented Art Director Rudy Hoglund, who, with Executive Director Nigel Holmes and Special Projects Chief Tom Bentkowski, is responsible for the look of the magazine...
...unpropitious sign. When China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared at a lunar New Year's celebration in early February, his right eye, which is often half closed, drooped shut completely. Then the 81-year-old Deng, who had just returned from six weeks in seclusion, again disappeared from public view. Anxious Chinese citizens and China watchers began to fear that his health had taken a serious turn for the worse...
Last week, looking fit, Deng reappeared in Peking to greet visiting Danish Premier Poul Schluter. Western diplomats still believe that Deng has been under medical care. The Chinese leader would only say that his long absence was designed "to show that the current policies in China do not hinge on myself alone" and that he is thinking about when to retire completely...