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...future is somewhat uncertain for the children of Canton. The latest historical revision of Chairman Mao and the insinuations connecting him with the evil Gang of Four have cast the basis of their parents' motivations into doubt. For them, as for their country, this is a crucial transition period, between the first revolutionary phase, led by Mao, and the second, which must function without--or in spite...
...until the Central Committee takes it from him-had erred in disputing the breadth and speed of Deng's modernization program. Also a factor: his increasingly embarrassing connection with the discredited Cultural Revolution. It was Hua, after all, who as Premier suppressed a now celebrated demonstration against the Gang of Four in Peking in 1976. His slide from power may have been accelerated by the Gang of Four show trial, which concluded its hearings last week...
...improvement on the secretive ways of China in the past-and on other Communist show trials, such as those in Stalin's Russia, when charges were trumped up and "enemies of the people" taken out and shot. An old Chinese adage has been revived, and revised, by the Gang of Four trial: the winner becomes king, the loser a bandit. In China these days the loser becomes a counterrevolutionary. At least this time the losers are a group that most people are glad to see well out of power...
...auto mechanic who hulks through the West saving damsels in distress and giving big bullies savage whuppings, the sound effects of which they will never forget. His menagerie includes a dotty ma (Ruth Gordon), a slow-witted pal (Geoffrey Lewis), a not-entirely-trustworthy girlfriend (Sondra Locke), a bumbling gang of neo-Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content here to watch the other performers pamper their eccentricities while he stands off to one side...
...schoolboy lark. None of the Dalton gang, even its eighth-grade leader, was prosecuted. But computer specialists were not amused. Besides costing the firms thousands of dollars in computer time, the incident was one more irritating example of the vulnerability of systems an that can have price tags in the millions and store information of incalculable value. It was also a sign of the growing incidence of computer crime...