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...Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Deng Zhifang, 34, is a graduate researcher in physics at New York's University of Rochester. Deng's three daughters are married. The oldest, Deng Lin, is an accomplished artist who has exhibited her paintings in New York City. Deng Rong and her husband He Ping, both Chinese foreign service officers, served in Washington from 1979 to 1983. Deng has at least two grandchildren, on whom he is said to dote...
Life has grown sweeter in Longzhao. Women who once made $10 a month can now take home $30 to $40, while their husbands earn similar paychecks building houses and factories, thanks to the construction boom, or working at jobs once limited to large collectives, like raising pigs and ducks. Liao's husband builds houses. With their combined income of $670 a year, they were able to buy a three-room duplex for $1,700. The collective chipped in about $300, and the couple will pay the balance over several years. Liao does not begrudge the debt, since it symbolizes better...
...wonder the younger generation looks upon Shenzhen as the land of opportunity. Take Chen Li and her husband Wu Nianxing. Until a few months ago, Chen, 25, taught at a language institute and Wu, 27, worked as an industrial designer in the Hunan city of Changsha. Unhappy with their prospects, they began taking seriously stories about Shenzhen, about the wealth of jobs, high salaries and ample living quarters. Wu traveled 450 miles by train to Shenzhen and quickly found a job in an electronics plant. His wife, fluent in English, was hired by the same company as an interpreter. This...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Daniela Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were...
...Christmas Day she visited Nelson Mandela for 40 minutes at Pollsmoor Prison, eight miles outside of Cape Town. Afterward she told reporters that the holiday visit had been the saddest in the 23 years her husband has been in jail. Reason: the 67-year-old black nationalist leader has been kept in solitary confinement in the prison hospital while recovering from a prostate-gland operation he underwent last month. "Christmas has ceased to be of any specific meaning to the oppressed people of this country," she declared. "Christmas has become a day of mourning...