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...spoke with four of them: the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, director of Beirut's Roman Catholic Relief Services; A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; and David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland of Beirut's American University. But he had not seen the other two, American University Librarian Peter Kilburn or Diplomat William Buckley...
...taken. Even if Deng and his colleagues maintain control at the top, they still face opposition at the regional and local levels. This is all the more so because China is a huge country that tends toward fractiousness at any sign of uncertainty in Peking. "Already," says a foreign diplomat, "we are seeing signs of provinces erecting trade barriers against goods from other areas." Economic improvement varies from region to region, and vested interests have begun to assert themselves. Chongqing, the country's largest city, was criticized last spring by Peking for refusing to send its bonus taxes...
...seized their new opportunities with the spirit and skill shown by the industrious Overseas Chinese. But the very success of reform could invite trouble as the initial heady effects of the transition subside. "Suppose in 15 or 20 years they haven't met their goals," says a senior Western diplomat. "Suppose factionalism gets in the way. Suppose population growth gets out of hand. Suppose energy and transportation begin to prevent the economy from growing. The death of Deng won't matter too much. But I worry about the future...
...year after the introduction of the urban reforms, China's success stories remain largely rural: almost all the rich wanyuanhu (literally "10,000-yuan households"--roughly $3,510) are in the countryside, as are nine out of ten private enterprises. "Yet without the urban reforms," says a Western diplomat, "the rest of Deng's program will eventually fail...
...same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign...