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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiang and Deng Xiaoping may try to resolve Taiwan's status. First of all, I wish to point out emphatically that there is not any so-called Taiwan question. In fact, there is only the China question. With the implementation of constitutional democracy in the Taiwan area, our people enjoy a free, peaceful, happy and prosperous life. This greatly disturbs the Chinese Communist leaders. Therefore they spare no effort in using all kinds of plots trying to confuse the China question with a so-called Taiwan question. An early reunification of China is the common wish of all Chinese. However...
Dish owners enjoy a staggering variety of programs. Not only can they receive all the regular and cable channels, but they get a potpourri of other broadcasts riding the satellite waves. Some of these are not put out by regular channels. Viewers can watch Johnny Carson audience warm-ups that never make NBC's Tonight Show, for example, or N.F.L. football games blacked out in their area. A top-of-the-line dish can even pull in Soviet TV, complete with news programs, ballet, and tank demonstrations...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...
...have, at least in the view of the world press, started a quite new style of politics in the U.S.S.R. You have gone out and met many people, mingled with workers, and been very visible. Do you enjoy this kind of activity? What benefits do you see deriving from...
...Russian region where Gorbachev got his start. "Maybe on occasion when I have been traveling in the country, the press has given it more prominence . . . But also I should say there was a need to go out and meet people more . . . It is not a question of whether I enjoy that style or not. You cannot work otherwise." If such remarks came from a Western politician, they would seem routine, but it is difficult to imagine any other Soviet leader discussing personal style as a tool of governing. Most have taken the stony approach of Andrei Gromyko, longtime Foreign Minister...