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...Deng extends economic reform from the farm to the factory...
Something was obviously afoot. China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, 80, who usually chooses to operate behind the scenes, uncharacteristically commanded center stage at National Day celebrations three weeks ago. Then, for an unprecedented nine days in a row, the low-profile leader appeared on the front page of People's Daily. In most of the articles quoting him, he pointedly asserted that his "open-door" policy on foreign trade would continue and that the capitalist system in Hong Kong would be preserved for at least 50 years after China reassumes control of the British colony in 1997. Finally...
...intelligence is diminishing. "The competence of an individual does not change much with age," said Dr. T Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging. "Many people in their 80s and 90s are quite capable of being President." Gerontologists point out that China is vigorously run by Deng Xiaoping, 80, and that half the members of the Soviet Politburo are over...
With fine political acumen, Deng, the senior member of China's Politburo and chairman of the Central Military Commission, identified himself wholly with the P.L.A. during the solemn day of rehabilitation. After reviewing the assembled troops, he mounted a rostrum to deliver an eight-minute speech that made it clear that China is proud of itself these days. Said he: "The whole country has taken on a new look. .. Today our people are full of joy and pride." Noting the initialing only a week earlier of an agreement with Britain under which the Crown Colony of Hong Kong will...
Less than ten minutes of the two-hour parade was taken up by the armed forces-6,000 soldiers followed by tanks, artillery and missiles. The rest consisted of a series of giant tableaux of moving humanity, depicting China's achievements under Deng, interspersed with battalions of dancers and students, all waving pompoms that transformed Tiananmen Square into shifting patterns of bright color. One huge float, representing the Yangtze River hydraulic project, had water gushing over a model dam; in another, a 14-ft. robot bunked, waved a bouquet of flowers and blurted out, "Long live the motherland...