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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong listened, stern-faced, as a student questioner bore down on him and other local officials about the nepotism and corruption that now pervade the Chinese bureaucracy. As television viewers at home watched intently, Chen, an unpopular hard-liner, seized the microphone and answered defensively. "I'm a grade-twelve cadre with a monthly income slightly over 300 yuan (($80))," he protested. "None of my family members are high-ranking officials. My son is a junior cadre in the Beijing civil affairs bureau, and my daughter-in-law is an ordinary clerk...
...speech and article in the Washington Post that "our view of the Soviet Union cannot be based on the personalities of its leaders but on the nature of the Soviet system itself. We face a deeply entrenched philosophy and system of government that has depended on repression at home and promoted aggression beyond its borders. Gorbachev is challenging some aspects of this system, but even he acknowledges he has not yet significantly changed...
...President and his advisers say they are annoyed because only a month earlier, Kohl won a grudging U.S. agreement to put off a decision on Lance modernization until after the West German elections in 1990. But the Chancellor's popularity at home has sagged recently, and his center-right coalition is threatened by discontent over widely criticized tax and health reforms. In an almost desperate attempt to regain ground, he has adopted the negotiate-now attitude of the Social Democratic opposition and of his coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. When Kohl sent two ministers to Washington to explain...
...nights, with briefing papers to be finished and reviewed for the Baker visit and China summit. "You have to pay a price for everything," says Deputy Minister Petrovsky. "But at least there is a dynamic feeling now of being part of an exciting process." And when Petrovsky leaves for home at 10 on any evening, chances are that the lights will still be burning bright in his boss's office...
Three months after Moscow's troop withdrawal, President Najibullah hangs tough in Kabul. -- Will Prince Sihanouk return home to Phnom Penh as the leader of Cambodia? -- Arafat "voids" the P.L.O. charter and scores a diplomatic success in Paris. -- Facing financial disaster, Argentina's voters consider putting a Peronist back in power...