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...several strokes and can barely speak. Deng has chosen Jiang as the man to follow him, but no one can supplant Deng as "paramount leader" until he dies, and his death will unleash a succession struggle. In the meantime, China is in a nerve-racking state of limbo, facing grave problems, such as rampant official corruption and widely divergent income levels, and fretting over a whole generation that remembers the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. At moments of particular skittishness--perhaps following a new gambit by a Jiang rival, an incident of disorder or Deng's taking a turn...
Intensity, by Dean Koontz (Knopf; 308 pages; $25), is expert schlock by a writer who has specialized in horror. No creatures from beyond the grave here, just that reliable old formula, babe in distress. Chyna Shepherd is the sole survivor after a fairly efficient thrill killer invades a house where she is a weekend guest and murders everyone else. She's terrified and unarmed, but naturally, instead of calling the cops, she stows away in the killer's motor home as he escapes...
...PROMISED LAND (DISCOVERY) It was the "greatest peacetime migration in American history"--the movement of blacks from the rural South to the booming cities of the North between 1940 and 1970--and this Discovery Channel documentary series recounted it in the grave, eloquent words of those who lived through it. Another strong addition (along with pbs' Eyes on the Prize, Parts 1 and 2) to TV's ongoing chronicle of the black experience in America...
LYNDON JOHNSON Vetoes G.O.P. budget from the grave as Clinton wields pen that signed Medicare bill...
...chief of the Harvard University Police Department yesterday expressed grave concern about the alteration of a "wanted" poster and the recent circulation of the altered poster in some of the undergraduate houses...