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...expansion plans mentioned above, the Quad owns 15 TV's, 14 laundry rooms with 1-3 washers and 1-3 driers in each, a kitchen and a common living room on nearly every floor of every hall, 2 slate pool tables, innumerable practice, seminar, and study rooms, 6 ping-pong tables, pinball machines, 3 darkrooms, a film workshop with assets of over $2000, a sound recording studio (formerly Radio Radcliffe), 3 woodworking shops, two living rooms or lounges on the first floor of every hall, large art and dance studios, 2 prosperous grilles, plus use of all Hilles' facilities, including...
...aphorism paraphrasing Mao's thought that goes, "If you have something to say, speak up; once you have started, say it right to the end." Nonetheless, renegades don't have it easy in The People's Republic. During the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s, Teng Hsiao-ping seems to have run afoul of Chairman Mao, perhaps by criticizing the regime unconstructively--that is, by venturing beyond practical issues and raising more fundamental questions about Party ideology. Teng's momentary lapse into a counter-revolutionary attitude may even now be taken more seriously than his position as deputy prime minister...
...limits the amount of influence he can really hold. In his book, Prisoner of Mao, Jean Pasqualini recounts a conversation with the chief warden of a Chinese prison for "reform through labor" (Lao Gai) that might have some bearing on the way things have turned out for Teng Hsiao-ping. Many former inmates of this labor camp for ideological reform continued to hold jobs there, away from their families, once they had been rehabilitated for their crimes against the Chinese people. Despite their reform, the free workers didn't live much differently from the prisoners. Yet this was likely...
Ross Terrill, associate professor of Government and an expert on East Asian affairs, said yesterday that he and many others had expected Teng Hsiao-ping, senior deputy premier and de facto premier for the past year during Chou's illness, to be named to succeed Chou...
Both Healy and DePriest were pessimistic about the team's chances of going to Cuba in the near future. They explained yesterday that the team had originally felt that Cuban relations were opening up and that there was an opportunity to participate in "ping-pong diplomacy...