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...party, chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Jiang did not let it rest at titles. He went on to build a network beholden to him. He fired scores of civilian, military and police officials and filled their jobs with his own appointees. He promoted Shanghai colleagues to the Politburo and shook up regional party organizations. During the past seven years he has done very well for a leader supposedly without a power base...
Those who dismiss Jiang as a transitional chief say he has no charisma, no military experience, no long career as a revolutionary fighter. In other words, he's not Deng. But none of the other members of China's collective leadership are either. Today's top Politburo members are bureaucrats and engineers. In Soviet terms, Jiang would not even be Nikita Khrushchev; rather, he's more like Leonid Brezhnev. The others are no different, and that works in two ways. They may have no more claim to greatness than Jiang, but now that Deng is gone they can easily...
...international trade and education. He is a friend of Jiang's and has a reputation as a liberal. But, says a Chinese banker, "unlike some orthodox leaders, he doesn't carry any political baggage." And coming up on the outside is Hu Jintao, 55, the golden boy of the Politburo's inner circle. Also an engineer, Hu is in charge of the party's key organizational department and the promotion of younger members...
...surprised by the Coop's recent failings. But I am shocked that the organization still exists. Students will continue to lose the value of their Coop "membership" in terms of opportunity cost as long as the Kremlin on the Square is controlled by an inept politburo headed by comrade Murphy. Privatization would cure such economic ills and would serve students well...
...hospital stays, reminding the Russians of the Brezhnev-Chernenko era." How long Yeltsin's latest recovery will last is anybody's guess: "Over last 80 years, the Soviet school of medicine has attained only one major achievement to boast: it has honed to perfection the craft of boosting up Politburo members and keeping them going, even if they were not at the top of their capacity to rule the country," says Zarakhovich. Yeltsin is now putting the Soviet school of medicine to its toughest test. -->