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Deng's campaign moved forward on several other fronts last week. A pamphlet containing Deng's major pronouncements over the past two years went on nationwide sale at 10 cents a copy. Titled Building China with Socialist Characteristics, the 72-page booklet stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened...
...pamphlet, written in Spanish, recommends use of "selective violence" to "neutralize" Sandinista public officials "such as court judges, police and state security officials." To make an example of an execution, it is "absolutely necessary to gather together the population affected, so that they will be present and take part in the act." If "it should be necessary" to shoot a "citizen who is trying to leave town," guerrillas should claim that he was "an enemy of the people." Targets who fail to cooperate, the manual instructs, should be "exposed" to police "with false statements from citizens." The finale...
Before he turned to this semiautobiographical novel, Detrez published two fragmentary accounts of his pious Catholic boyhood and a pamphlet defending guerrilla warfare titled For the Liberation of Brazil. Out of this unpromising welter of religious and political rhetoric there has emerged the wholly unsuspected, a writer of genuine promise...
...women ... shouted, drank, pinched one another, capered about and formed snakes of dancers that rolled up, unrolled, circled around a boy or a girl, squeezed him tight, touched him, aroused him, and then went off." But the scenes of guerrilla fighting and police repression are more persuasive than any pamphlet or videotape sent from either side of the South American struggles of politics and faith...
They say they must continue their efforts to urge citizens and government officials to accept their recommendations. These range from requiring parents of high school students to sign a statement saying they have read the course selection pamphlet and discussed their children's selections with them to urging the city and local civic organizations to give awards for beautification and improvement to property owners...