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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part because of similar complaints, Beijing announced plans last year to scuttle the job-allocation system this November. But on April 13 the State Council rescinded the scheduled reform. The decision was understandable. Rather than work in state-run enterprises, which need talented help desperately, most college graduates would opt for private-sector jobs that offer more money, greater opportunities for advancement and the chance to travel abroad. But the government's about-face last April, combined with the death two days later of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded Communist Party Chairman ousted in early 1987, contributed to the student...
...skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack at the problem...
...Republican Alliance (ARENA) has strong links to El Salvador's armed forces, also offered publicly for the first time to consider a drastic reduction in military manpower. If the talks succeed, he said, "there would be a demobilization of the armed forces. We don't believe there's a need for a 55,000-man army if there is peace...
...four-hour flight from Washington to Wyoming, Shevardnadze gave Baker a detailed rundown on Moscow's problems with its economy and restive nationalities. The two men took off their jackets and leaned so close together that their faces were just inches apart. Shevardnadze's tone was urgent. "We need fresh ideas," he told reporters. "It is high time for us to move from mutual understanding to mutual action...
...treatment. Doctors are discovering that combining the potent antiviral drug with such other formulas as interferon (an immune- system booster) or probenecid (an antigout drug) lowers the dose of AZT necessary for effective treatment. In addition, people who are infected with the AIDS virus but show no symptoms need only about half the full-strength dose to slow the course of the disease...