Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Gang movement. In Kwangtung, according to one broadcast, entrenched followers of the radicals infiltrated an investigation of their own affairs. The result was that evidence compiled on the local activities of the Gang of Four simply vanished. In other provinces-Liaoning, Honan, Shensi-there have been no top-level changes in a decade, which suggests that in those areas the officials who took power during the Cultural Revolution have been protected from the purge...
Despite these problems, Teng's position is considered quite strong. "Teng has been moving very slowly," says one Hong Kong observer, "largely to hold together some sort of top-level unity. But gradually he's getting all his people on board." A few weeks ago, the entire former party secretariat of northeastern Heilungkiang province was rehabilitated en masse. More recently, there have been unconfirmed reports that former Peking Mayor P'eng Chen, a major victim of the Cultural Revolution, will be the next former villain to be restored to power. If so, Teng will have advanced...
...discontent in this straitened atmosphere, the government has hiked wages to a respectable level-on average, $271 monthly-and opened the borders to foreign consumer goods. But hardly anyone shows any interest in public affairs. Says one purge victim: "All the old questions remain unanswered. There are no illusions. The cynicism is astonishing...
...Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzmán is determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After the inauguration, the new President kept Vance and Young waiting while he purged the top level of the armed forces. Ousting most of the Balaguer partisans, Guzmán swore in a new set of military chiefs, none of whom had been advised in advance of the change...
...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...