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...leader will also need considerable public support as he launches his boldest, and perhaps his last, assault upon China's long-held commitment to egalitarianism. Last Saturday's document categorically declared that "socialism does not mean pauperism, for it aims at the elimination of poverty." But many politically "conservative" Chinese, who still believe that penury is a virtue, may feel that the new brand of socialism sounds suspiciously like capitalism. In the highest echelons, Deng has been supported by Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang, but has evidently run into some stiff resistance over the pace...
Such an operation, like those that located the De Braak and other recent finds, rolls back the long-held secrets of the deep. One measure of how far the salvage trade has come is that when the De Braak sank 186 years ago, salvage was impossible, even though her masts were visible above the surface for more than a year to mark her grave...
Pope John Paul II has shown no signs of wavering from this long-held stand, and Law has not dissented publicly from the Church's view on the matter...
...serious White House attack on budget shortfalls will wait until after the election. In the State of the Union address, Reagan intends to repeat his long-held view that deficits must eventually be cut by drastic reductions in Government spending. In the budget, however, he will propose only minor changes that net out to a reduction in planned outlays of a piddling $4 billion, or less than two-thirds of 1 % of nonmilitary spending. Among other things, the Administration has dropped a proposal to make Medicare patients pay more of the early costs of hospitalization in return for Government assumption...
More specifically, the government granted amnesty to 307 Miskito Indians who had been jailed for counterrevolutionary activities and invited some 70,000 Indians who had been driven by the government from their long-held tribal lands to return. "We recognize that we've committed arbitrary acts against Nicaraguans of Miskito origin," said Minister of the Interior Tdmas Borge Martinez in a rare apology. Sandinista officials have for months privately confessed their gross mishandling of the Miskito issue. Borge also met with editors of the daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would...