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China's bustling workplaces give further evidence that Deng Xiaoping's reforms are still on track -- and making headway. Western visitors to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, where free enterprise thrives in factories and shops, have found no retreat from the reforms. To emphasize that the political furor in Peking has left them largely unaffected, local officials cite a Chinese maxim: "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away." Even in the capital the pace of change seems unabated. The Bank of China last week agreed to link its Great Wall credit card with New York-based MasterCard...
...ministry, university and medical center in Tulsa, had broadcast that God would "call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio, the gospel broadcasters' total receipts probably approach $2 billion a year. To critics as well as concerned believers, the industry often seems more concerned with bucks than Bibles...
...Robertson, the engaging entrepreneur of the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Va., denied that the furor over his fellow TV religionists would harm his hopes of becoming a Republican candidate for President of the U.S., although there was hearty debate about its effects on his campaign. Referring to Bakker, Robertson said, "I think the Lord is housecleaning a little bit. I'm glad to see it happen." Meanwhile, Robertson had other pressing business. He interrupted his campaign tours to give a deposition in his two libel suits, each for $35 million, against two politicians who said that his late...
...furor created by the CDC's testing advisory was compounded when the federal Department of Health and Human Services also chose last week to release its long-delayed AIDS-education plan. The report, made public only after congressional prodding, was delayed for nearly two months by a sharp split in the Administration. Health authorities believe that the best AIDS prevention consists of candid information and safe-sex techniques like condom use, while conservative officials hold that chastity and marital sanctity are the only moral methods for preventing its spread...
...legislators were embarrassed by Pollard's protestations that he had a "moral obligation" to spy for Israel. Such statements, said Florida Democratic Congressman Lawrence Smith, "are deeply distressing to American Jews, particularly those in the Government or close to it." On the other hand, Smith added, "much of the furor comes from circles that would be just as happy if there were not a U.S. relationship with Israel...