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Tennis Star Hu Na gains asylum and strains U.S.-Chinese ties
...supporters the issue was one of political persecution. Reacting to what she viewed as ominous pressure to join the Communist Party, 19-year-old Chinese Tennis Star Hu Na one night last July slipped out of a California hotel during a tennis tour and went into hiding at a friend's home. But to Peking the issue was a critical test of Chinese-American relations. Worried that Washington might grant Hu Na political asylum, ViceChairman Deng Xiaoping urged the U.S. last August to consider "the greater interests of the relations between the two countries...
...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...