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...Secretary Zhao Ziyang last week, both men are accused of string pulling. One source of resentment against Li, the adopted son of former Premier Zhou Enlai, is that his connections enabled him to study in Moscow and rise rapidly through the ranks. Zhao's son is chairman of the Hainan Huahai Co., a trading and investment company. Moreover, Yang, Zhao and Deng are all believed to have sons-in-law who work for army-run companies that export Chinese arms...
...when the 3,000-member National People's Congress, the country's legislature, meets in Beijing to consider speeding up the pace of economic reform, the disparities between the two Chinas are likely to become even more pronounced. One item on the agenda will be the proposed transformation of Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk of letting...
Chinese and Vietnamese naval ships exchanged fire for the next 48 hours. The Chinese flotilla was supported by MIG warplanes based on Hainan Island 200 miles to the north. At least one Vietnamese ship was sunk, and 122 Vietnamese were killed or captured. Although Saigon claims to have sunk two Chinese ships (Peking has refused comment), all Vietnamese were driven from the Paracels and Saigon Radio admitted defeat...
...China coast in 1965, and Navy Lieut. Robert J. Flynn was imprisoned after being shot down when his plane strayed across the Chinese border during a combat mission over North Viet Nam in 1967. In addition, Navy Lieut. Joseph Dunn, whose plane was downed off the island of Hainan in 1968, may be a prisoner...
...South Vietnamese planes shot down (the actual toll since February has been less than 30). But Ho apparently did get help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet Nam. In terms of aerodynamics performance, the slow (730 m.p.h.) MIGs were clearly inferior to the 1,600-m.p.h. Phantoms with their heat-seeking Sidewinder rockets. One of the planes was sent flaming into the clouds while the others scuttled for home. At week...