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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Missing Leader | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...surprised you devoted so much space to the anguish of the inept fraternity of pollsters [Dec. 11. When will these snoopers wise up to the fact that it is nobody's business how a person intends to vote? Many of us delight in never giving a pollster a straight answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Morning Shows | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...outdoors on Main Street with maybe 300 souls in attendance, very few of them tourists-a flea market, old-fashioned cakewalks (for homemade cakes, each cook's name revealed so you know your source), bingo, food stands (one white, one black-with integrated patrons), puppets, a pleasantly inept bluegrass trio, somber teen-age gospel singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing I've ever seen from the Muckalee Mudstompers, a local troupe with a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...nation's major robot users. "People kept asking me if I thought that robots would ultimately cause more problems than they solved," he says. "I have no ready answer to that, but I have learned that, despite the wonders they can work, they are incredibly stupid and remarkably inept compared to humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 8, 1980 | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

National development is not supposed to be a juggernaut demanding the sacrifice of freedom of speech and justice. What developing countries cannot afford is not the luxury of a critical press, but the white elephant of an inept or corrupt government. Only a critical press can keep the government on its toes or put misguided national development back on the right track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1980 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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