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...show of support for sexual abstinence at the Statehouse Tuesday, the Pure Love Alliance (PLA) hit Boston on their Absolute Sex National Tour calling for premarital chastity and marital fidelity...
...decided if we really wanted to make a public impact then we'd have to take to the streets," said Michelle Myers, director of public relations for the PLA...
...wondering where I should put the gifts he gave me. I might put the Pla-Doh on my vanity table; perhaps the rubber frogs could be displayed on my dresser...
...consolidating his power in 1978, Deng Xiaoping used a mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million-member Soviet armed forces. Last week Beijing announced that another 70,000 army officers would relinquish their uniforms and take government jobs. The military's share of the national budget, now $5.8 billion, has declined...
...always gone along with Deng's changes. Last year Deng, 83, was forced to remove his chosen successor, Hu Yaobang, from his most important offices partly because he was seen as antimilitary. His successor, Zhao Ziyang, is also a reformer, but one who is apparently acceptable to the PLA. When the new ranking system takes effect in the fall, Zhao is considered a strong candidate for promotion to senior general, the highest military grade...