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...though to confirm that interpretation, a Soviet diplomat last week gloated over the contrast between Gorbachev's age and Reagan's: "Now if there's a | summit, it will be your old leader sitting down with our young one. You might say we are turning the tables on you after all these years, going back to the meeting between John Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...Soviet leaders. The generational distinction may mean less in the future than it has in the past, however, largely because Gorbachev shrewdly deferred to his elders during the transition from the leadership of Yuri Andropov to that of Konstantin Chernenko and avoided an old-young confrontation. As a Western diplomat in Moscow puts it, "Gorbachev was smart not to push Chernenko out. He just waited for the old man to drop...
...that had been usual under Leonid Brezhnev. But he probably will take his time in choosing his team, seeking instead to allay any suspicion that he is trying to monopolize power too quickly. "Gorbachev does not need to pack the Politburo with his own men," says one diplomat. "There do not seem to be any challengers to his rule...
Chinese officials often seem taken aback by the sheer novelty of their recent economic achievements. "Tell me," an experienced Chinese diplomat asked in Peking not long ago, "do you really think China is going capitalist?" It is not, of course. The key means of production remain in the ! hands of the state, and the Communist Party is firmly in charge. The question that should be asked is this: Is China growing out of its half-century-long embrace of Marxist metaphysics? The answer is a qualified...
...comrade-in-arms, Joshua Nkomo, 67, began to quarrel over the political spoils. Today Nkomo and his Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country's future with Mugabe and his dominant Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Says a Western diplomat in Harare, the capital: "Mugabe must often wish that Nkomo would just retire, but the old man refuses to go away...