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...Cultural Revolution and Mao's earlier blunders were not China's whole revolutionary experience, as White seems to suggest. Nor should the downfall of the Gang of Four be interpreted to mean that the revolution has burned out. And further, it is wrong to imply that an industrialized China may not work to the world's good. Have we no ideas for working in harmony with developing economies? Anyone who has properly analyzed recent changes inside China must conclude that its socialist system is there to stay. China has developed into a state ordered by Marxist-Leninist...
...Administration had played both sides off against each other. Over the next two weeks, Nunn, Cohen and Percy joined forces with Aspin (who had plugged double build-down in a letter to Scowcroft in August), Dicks and Gore in the House, forming what became known as "the Gang of Six." The group agreed on a set of principles, including a commitment to less vulnerable missiles and to some formula for reducing total nuclear destructive capacity...
SENTENCED. David Gilbert, 40, Judith Clark, 33, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36, radical gang members convicted of the murders of a guard and two police officers in the $1.6 million Brink's armored-car robbery of October 1981; each to a minimum of 75 years in prison; in Goshen, N.Y. The would-be revolutionaries will serve three consecutive terms of 25 years to life...
...image of the age, at once soaring, shattered, bold, disintegrated and terrifying. The image has incorporated everything that freedom can stand for, all victories and insanities alike. How can the period that encouraged the development of the Salk vaccine have also allowed for the maraudings of the Baader-Meinhof gang? Because the spirit of these years has moved equally through killers and benefactors, each propelled by the same wind whispering the same neutral message: stability is not a natural state; nothing ought...
DIED. Qiao Guanhua, 70, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1974-76 who played a crucial role in improving his country's relations with the U.S. before he was dismissed from office for his alleged connections with the purged radical faction, the Gang of Four; of lung cancer; in Peking. A worldly, seasoned diplomat and close ally of the late Premier Chou Enlai, Guanhua, was known for his wide-ranging intelligence and acerbic wit. Because of his ties with Mao Tse-tung's widow, Gang of Four Leader Jiang Qing, Guanhua became...