Word: hued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...four-hour report to delegates, Chairman Hu declared that China's top priority for the remainder of the century was economic modernization. Brimming with confidence, he called for the quadrupling of China's gross national product to $1.4 trillion by the year 2000. (The U.S.'s current G.N.P.: $2.9 trillion.) Although China's economic system will remain socialist, Hu urged greater reliance on foreign technology and market mechanisms. One capitalistic idea known as the "responsibility system" already allows peasants to increase their pay by doing extra work, and allows farmers to keep or sell production...
...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...
...lissome 5-ft. 8-in. ace, the Chinese tennis team scored an upset victory over the Japanese in the first round of the 32-nation Federation Cup in Santa Clara, Calif. In the second round, however, as expected, West Germany beat China. The team disappeared from the competition. And Hu Na, 19, disappeared from the team. She was, in fact, defecting to the U.S. For American immigration officials. Hu's decision put the ball in their court with a tricky bit of backspin, since approval of her request will imply a certain level of political persecution back home...
...Democratic leaders, the President decided to shelve any major reforms of the all-but-bankrupt Social Security system as part of his second round of budget cuts. He had hoped to confront the issue head-on during his televised speech. Instead, he merely recommended again changes that Health and Hu man Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and OMB Director David Stockman had formulated and that the Senate had rejected last May, and proposed a few palliatives to shore up the system for the time being. Reagan also asked that any major changes in Social Security be studied by a 15-member...