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...palace intrigue had indeed toppled Hua from his post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...
...most immediate sign that Chairman Hua is in trouble was that he has not been seen in public for more than three weeks. Last week he even failed to turn up for a visit by a Greek Communist Party delegation; the group was received instead by Hu Yaobang. Hu, like Deng, is one of the few survivors of the Long March. Like Deng, too, the peasant-born Hu has been twice purged and twice rehabilitated. His resurgence was signaled last February when he was named head of a restored party secretariat, a post that gives him control of the party...
...campaign against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...
Danny-Joe Driscoll San Francisco As an Estonian whose parents fled So viet persecution during World War II, I abhor the Soviet government's repression of human rights. Still, its people are hu man beings and deserve to be respected as such, if not by their leaders, then by us. It's high time for Americans to take the trouble to look with interest at life in the U.S.S.R...
...novel survives the weakness of its hero because Percy is as genial and hu mane as Will is obsessed. While the character castigates the world, his creator renders it with loving care. The Second Coming engages the senses as well as the mind, hectoring sometimes, but entertaining...