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Last month Sir Murray MacLehose became the first Hong Kong Governor ever to pay an official visit to Peking. His warm reception by Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) was a signal of Peking's intent to allow the colony to maintain its traditional status and increasingly to involve it in the push to modernization. On his return, MacLehose quoted Deng as saying that investors in Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." In short, China's pragmatic post-Mao leaders value Hong Kong as a window on the world and a source...
...policy was first signaled by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) in a speech to party officials last month. Among other things, Deng denounced Chinese who indulged in Western-style dancing or who "sold state secrets" to foreigners. As if on cue, city and provincial bosses quickly went on the attack against all political protest. China's press denounced "ultra-democracy," as well as the "black sheep" who helped "to launch vicious attacks on party and state leaders." The Peking Daily dismissed human rights as a mere "bourgeois slogan...
...socialism and to the dictatorship of the proletariat. What brutal hypocrisy!" A wall poster responding to Deng's speech sneered that he and his Politburo cronies were "successors and followers" of the Gang of Four-the clique headed by Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing)-who had been Deng's most bitter enemies...
...does not fit them together to form a fresh and exciting self-portrait. Some of the clips are brought into fascinating juxtaposition (or so Truffaut fans will find), but others are far less poi gnant in this film than they were in their original contexts. The result is unsatisfy ing and a bit dispiriting. Though Antoine Doinel maintains the headstrong velocity of youth, Francois Truffaut is beginning to show some signs of sedentary middle...
...Brown arrived at the Concord statehouse, the Democratic members of the house committee stalked out of the hearing to protest. That left Brown with the unhappy choice of testifying, and in the process alienating the state's Democratic leaders, or backing down and look ing foolish. Brown retreated. Said he: "I am not going to be a party to a snub of the Governor of New Hampshire...