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...enough woman for any man to fall for. But then Cheung, a Hong Kong actor living in Vancouver, might not have been available for the role of his career. As Cheng Dieyi, a homosexual star of the Peking Opera who is riven by jealousy when his "stage brother" Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) marries a call girl (Gong Li), Cheung is both steely and vulnerable, with a sexuality that transcends gender -- a Mandarin Michael Jackson...
...launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on crime last summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when he adamantly denied the charge. In 1981 he was placed under investigation...
...situation in a different light. A Hanoi radio broadcast last May charged that China had "renewed its acts of war against Viet Nam," and blamed the Chinese for border infractions almost identical to those that China had complained about. Viet Nam's Communist Party Secretary General Le Duan said last month that the Chinese goal was "to weaken and eventually annex" Viet...
...Politburo, however, remains dominated by septuagenarians, some of them ailing; Premier Pham Van Dong is 77, while Secretary General Le Duan just turned 76. The Vietnamese Communist Party, which has 1.7 million members, is divided and confused. There is no clear doctrine on topics ranging from farming collectives to foreign relations. Visitors to Hanoi now hear the government bitterly criticized, with the most pointed complaints coming from cadres. Some government workers are so desperate that they even approach foreigners on the street and offer to change money illegally, at the rate of 75 dong to $1, vs. the official rate...
...Kremlin was clearly intent on creating the impression that-his vacation not-withstanding-Brezhnev was still in command. The front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda dutifully printed, under Brezhnev's signature, messages to several world leaders. In a birthday note to Vietnamese Party Leader Le Duan, also 75, Brezhnev hoped that his comrade might enjoy "good health, years of long life and new successes in your vigorous activity." He might very well have wished himself the same...