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...Zhao must proceed cautiously; conservative forces lurk behind the scenes, ready to criticize any failing innovations. While most hardliners were booted out of the Central Committee in this Congress, there are three new leaders in the party's inner circle who are steeped in Soviet training and poised to slow the reforms. Based on the negative effects capitalist initiatives have had on China recently, conservatives already have sufficient gripes...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Creeping Toward Reform | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard, this is a near-must-win game (1 p.m. kickoff, WHRB 95.3 FM, PBS). The Crimson is currently tied with Yale atop the Anceint Eight at 4-1. Three teams, Princeton, Brown and Cornell, lurk a game back...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Gridders, Quakers Clash in Penn-Ultimate Ivy Showdown | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...frustrations of finding out what's available--and with screwing up the courage to walk into some professor's office and ask the basic questions academics entered university life, at least in part, to answer. It should be easier for students to find the sources of information that now lurk behind platoons of department secretaries, deputy assistant head tutors and signs listing each professor's four weekly office hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Screwing Up Courage | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

...time, say U.S. intelligence analysts, the U.S.S.R. is operating some 150 satellites, and perhaps as many as 120 are believed to be performing military missions. For hours each day, say intelligence analysts, Soviet Cosmos military satellites drift over the U.S., photographing missile silos and naval deployments. Other Soviet spacecraft lurk with sensitive electronic ears that can pick up telephone conversations in Washington, while Meteor weather satellites monitor conditions over key U.S. targets. Soviet infrared satellites watch for the telltale heat signaling a launch of U.S. ICBMs. At the military launch site in Plesetsk, 500 miles northeast of Moscow, crews stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surging Ahead | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

While outside, the bad' uns lurk...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

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