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...said there must be a way to marshal the grassroots support she tapped this summer "and find out some way to do it at the presidential level...
...campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted or fired," he declared. "Those who committed outrages should be either jailed or executed. We should show no mercy...
...looms especially large as China prepares to name a new generation of leaders. Those moving up on the fast track include Li Tieying, 50, a likely Politburo member whose father was a Communist Party founder, and Ye Xuanping, 62, the governor of Guangdong province and son of the late Marshal Ye Jianying. Their defenders argue that such leaders should not be barred from advancement merely because they happen to be well connected. "An unqualified person should not be appointed simply because his father is a high official," says Tianjin Mayor Li Ruihuan. "Nor should one be denied promotion simply because...
...roots party members reportedly rejected several prominent taizi pai as delegates. Among them: Chen Yuan, the son of Politburo Member Chen Yun and a member of the standing committee of the Peking Municipal Party, and Chen Haosu, Vice Minister of Radio, Film and Television and son of the late Marshal Chen Yi. Yet neither is finished in politics. Insiders expect Chen Yuan to be named Deputy Party Secretary in Peking, while Chen Haosu is likely to be elected to the Central Committee at the upcoming Congress. "They don't have to be party delegates to move on," says a Peking...
Hope, pugnacity, desperation. And the entertainer's belief that, against fatal odds, the show must go on. These may be the only emotional weapons an artist can marshal against a disease that has sapped America's artistic community. Star-studded evenings like the Madonna concert and the Ludlam memorial have become depressingly frequent occasions for New York's beau monde. In October, 13 prominent dance companies will appear in Dancing for Life, which should raise $1.5 million for four AIDS groups. In November, Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price and other luminaries will stage a Carnegie Hall concert to cadge...