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...shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little crime in the nine-month-old shopping center, and the reasons why tell a great deal about Watts: 17 security guards are on the payroll, and iron en trance gates, controlled from a rooftop command post, can be closed within seconds to keep prowlers out at night and robbers in during...
Some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, another disaster was in the making as an EgyptAir Boeing 73.7, en route from Athens to Cairo with approximately 100 people on board, was hijacked last Saturday and forced down at Luqa Airport on Malta. Demanding fuel to continue on to an unspecified destination, the hijackers, who identified themselves as members of a group called Egypt's Revolution, threatened a systematic execution of passengers until the plane was refueled. By Sunday morning, the Maltese government had confirmed the death of one woman, tentatively identified as Nancy Stevens, 20. The death toll was expected...
...China is all the more remarkable for his lack of intellectual pretense. Unlike the late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second revolution recently, Deng said...
...opportunity for formal schooling. Deng worked for a time at a Renault factory and at a rubber-footware plant in Montargis, south of Paris. Though he wore Western-style clothes and acquired a lifelong fondness for croissants and bridge, he associated almost exclusively with other Chinese, among them Chou En...
...Peng, 57, widely seen as China's next Premier, and Hu Qili, 56, heir apparent to the powerful post of General Secretary of the Communist Party. Both men were elevated last fall to the party's policy-setting Politburo. Li, the adopted son of former Premier Chou En-lai, is a Soviet-educated engineer who speaks Russian and has served as minister of the Chinese power industry. Hu, a fluent English speaker, runs the party's day-to-day activities...