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...Peking, Chinese officials mysteriously became quite forthcoming. In San Francisco last week, Premier Zhao Ziyang declared that "Hong Kong will remain unchanged for at least 50 years after 1997." In an interview in the authoritative Peking weekly magazine Outlook (circ. 300,000), a Chinese spokesman on Hong Kong, Ji Pengfei, outlined a remarkably specific blueprint for absorbing that tiny outpost of capital ism into the vast citadel of Communism...
RECOVERING. Ahn Ji Sook, 7, and Lee Kil Woo, 4, the South Korean children brought to the U.S. by President and Mrs. Reagan after their November Far East tour; from surgery to repair heart defects; in Roslyn, N.Y. The two were moved out of intensive care last week and should be healthy enough to return home before Christmas...
...stigmatize organizations with a stamp of disapproval simply because they are selective is a dangerous precedent that the University should not set. Cut the ties, but let people choose to join or not to join in peace. George S. Canellos Peter J. Howe Ji H. Min Marie B. Morris Robert M. Neer
Croce's condemnations are rigorous and vivid. Of the late modernist Doris Humphrey she writes: "Humphrey was a structuralist who could reduce a Bach concerto to a nest of mixing bowls; the bowls were brown." Of the immensely popular work of the Netherlands Dance Theater's Jiŕi Kylian: "A favorite form of pas de trois is the woman pulled and dragged on a steeplechase course between two men. It stands for rape, for exaltation...
Among convicted officials, Guan is one of the very few to suffer the extreme penalty of execution. Most of the others have been dismissed from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...