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...crowd of 433 heard three participants in a panel discussion called "China: On the Road to Capitalism?" address the changes in China's economy since the death of its long-time leader Mao Zedong...
...China is now correcting Mao's mistakes," said Li Miao, a former administrator of China's Ministry of Finance. But while Mao's successors have disbanded communes and encouraged private enterprise, Miao said, the Chinese are not abandoning socialism...
...China, was fostering the development of a potential enemy. Aikman acknowledged that the United States may in fact be helping to sustain a government operating under an ideology the American government opposes, but said that "it is in our best interests that we encourage reforms against the leftism that Mao advocated...
...leader, Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others will fall into place...
...experimental garden. One day, for a linguistics presentation, we threw pies at each other, then tossed tiny parachutes at the other class members. The professor gave us both A's." And now in May '68, here is La Pasionaria Sigourney, set to exhort the students with quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. But it is missing from her tote bag. She grabs her address book (same size, same color) and waves it above her head, declaiming her memorized Mao. "They responded wildly," Weaver recalls, "and we marched off to the ROTC building and set it afire...