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...national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said a Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens may finally get equal justice. Noted an elderly Communist intellectual: "At least our leaders seem to recognize that this problem exists. We cannot modernize unless everyone is more or less subject...
...Northern Ireland. After the tally was announced, the Rev. Ian Paisley, a militant Protestant leader, shouted, "Ulster forever!" The next day, Paisley and fellow Democratic Unionist M.P. Peter Robinson tendered their resignations in the Commons' traditional fashion by applying for nominal Crown jobs, which would bar them from House membership. Their 13 Ulster Unionist colleagues vowed to follow suit...
...proposes to let Taiwan retain not only a capitalist economy but independent armed forces. Taiwan so far is not buying. Eager for more trade and investment, Deng is trying to make China a partner in the non-Communist world economic system. In 1986 Peking expects to apply for full membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the 90-nation organization that monitors world-trade rules...
...time." That admission satisfied Jiang Qing and the fanatical Red Guards only temporarily. In 1967 Mao's wife openly denounced Deng as a "culprit of the counterrevolutionary capitalist line," leading to his dismissal from both his party and government offices. He was, however, allowed to retain his party membership...
Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...