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...political heir? What would become of Deng's sweeping economic reforms, aimed at modernizing agriculture and industry through the use of Western-style technology and limited free-market mechanisms? On the questions of economic and foreign policy, China's two top leaders sought to give assurances that no drastic shifts were in the works. Zhao told a visiting Hungarian official last week that the "personnel changes will not affect our line and policies." Speaking with another visitor, Deng noted that "China needs further opening" to the outside world. The country's "mistakes," he added, "were due to demanding too much...
Mechanical preparations aside, the dynamics of 1988 promise drastic differences from the past four elections. For the first time since 1968, no incumbent is running. For the first time in memory -- since 1952, at least -- the race in both parties is completely open. Neither party boasts a dominant potential leader with a solid lead at this stage...
Some have worried that this association of the current-day student activists with the drastic and occasionally brutal methods of the Cultural Revolution's Red Guards may harm protesters' efforts. But for the most part the students are seen as part of a continuing Chinese tradition of scholarly responsibility...
More and more economists and Congressmen believe the current Gramm-Rudman target for fiscal 1988 is unrealistic and needs to be revised. If Congress made too drastic a cut in the deficit, they argue, it could throw the sluggish economy into a recession. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington- based Institute for International Economics: "I don't think anybody believes that it is either possible or desirable to meet the Gramm-Rudman target." Admits Chiles: "There is nothing magic about $108 billion. But I think you have a problem if you abandon it without something better...
...Gorbachev, not Reagan, who had blocked a drastic reduction in nuclear weapons. He did so by demanding a price he should have known Reagan would never pay: confining all work on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative to laboratory research for ten years...