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DIED. CHEDDI JAGAN, 78, President of Guyana; in Washington, where he had been hospitalized after a heart attack. An avowed Marxist, Jagan was elected premier in 1953, and again in '57 and '61, while Guyana was still a British colony, but his grip on power was repeatedly sabotaged by British and U.S. machinations. Jagan later adopted free-market principles, and after nearly three decades in opposition, made a comeback in 1992 in what was hailed as the country's first free election in 28 years...
...people" of their choice. By 2000, all of China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power. And the party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...true market economy cannot emerge fully until the government does something about its ailing state enterprises. These decrepit firms, employing some 100 million workers, are swamped by debt, surplus labor and bloated inventories. Their out-of-date equipment and Marxist management, corrupt and incompetent, make them hopelessly uncompetitive. Half the 100,000 enterprises operate at a loss, and one-third barely turn a profit. At one time or another, half of all state employees have been furloughed or have had their pay or hours cut. Workers earn most of their income moonlighting for private firms...
...Deng joined the Communist Youth League set up by his expatriate countrymen. With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog to a Soviet-supported warlord, fell through when his patron defected to the Nationalists. Deng's next mission was even less promising: the young communist...
...Harvard truly was committed to diversity, it would find room at the Crimson Inn for black conservative professors in order to provide a counterpoint to the Marxist nonsense preached by Cornel West and his acolytes. Instead, Harvard, along with Newt Gingrich, has bought into the fallacy that Jesse Jackson and his elk represent black America...