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...leaders of ruling Communist parties did little more than pay lip service to Marx. Speaking under an enormous portrait of the man, Chinese Party Secretary Hu Yaobang praised Marx as "the most outstanding revolutionary and scientist in human history," then devoted the rest of his 90-minute address to promoting Peking's pragmatic approach to reform. Soviet Party Chief Yuri Andropov contributed an anniversary article to the journal Kommunist last month, lauding Marx as "a great practical revolutionary." His own views on the need for workers to be thrifty and responsible had a curiously capitalist ring. Maverick Rumania marked...
Jiang is rumored to have spent those years making dolls, then rendering them unusable by embroidering her name on them. Party Chief Hu Yaobang told journalists last August that "she persists in behaving as a political and ideological enemy of our people." Yet when Jiang's reprieve expired last week, China's Supreme People's Court commuted her sentence to life in prison. Her apparently impenitent coconspirator, former Vice Premier Zhang Chunqiao, 65, received a similar reprieve. The court's somewhat lame explanation: the criminals had not "resisted reform in a flagrant...
...learned as a child at a missionary-run school. Although he moved into the foreign ministry only early this year, he is said to be well versed in foreign affairs, particularly concerning the Third World. Wu Xueqian His best credential, perhaps, is his affiliation with Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang...
Deng and his comrades are eager to deny that they face any significant opposition. Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang told one recent visitor that dissidents "do not number more than 200,000, and they have now been scattered all over the country." But Western experts suspect that the problem is more serious. Part of the reason that the leaders are publicly browbeating the U.S. over Taiwan is to prove their patriotism to party colleagues and to fend off the charge that they have let the U.S. push China around...
...some delegates, all the talk about economic modernization had an ominous sound, since Hu and Deng are believed to be preparing a broad shake-up of the party leadership throughout China in the name of modernization. As one party stalwart explained, "About 10% of the membership is no longer up to the grade." That could spell trouble for some 3.9 million party functionaries and officials who, in Deng's view, have failed to support his ambitious dream of a stable and modern China...