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...premier issue of a new annual magazine has appeared on some racks. It is called Vietnam Combat, subtitled The Blood, the Guts & the Glory of the American GI. The magazine romanticizes the war and its warriors, details battle strategy, and best of all, for just $2.95, describes the American victory. A considerably more serious project is a 20-volume history, overseen by Robert Manning, former editor of the Atlantic, and distributed by TIME-LIFE Books, called The Vietnam Experience. Originally intended to sell about 120,000 copies, it has stirred enough interest so that its press run will probably...
...survey, MGH was named as the premier general hospital in the country. Harvard-affiliated Shriner Burn Center ranked as the highest in its category, as did Children's Hospital...
Wearing a gray Mao jacket, Premier Zhao Ziyang delivered the keynote address last week at the opening session in Peking of the National People's Congress, China's nominal parliament. His theme was "socialist economic construction," a euphemism for the wide-ranging reforms instituted by Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping that have decentralized economic planning and decision making. Zhao spoke of "gratifying major successes" over the past year in industry, housing and agriculture. Then, in a surprising admission before the 2,712 delegates, he acknowledged that there were problems...
...Premier complained of rises in prices, wages and credit and decried "selfish departmentalism," meaning corruption and profiteering by local officials and managers, who have greater powers today than in the old days of Soviet-style central planning. Citing Deng's recent exhortation for "lofty ideals and moral integrity," Zhao announced a decision to reimpose some bureaucratic controls aimed at increasing government oversight of financial operations. The move was seen as an attempt to consolidate the reform program, rather than retreat from...
...Mulroney could not go back to Ottawa without at least some concession on acid rain, Administration officials came up with a plan to appoint a joint U.S.-Canadian team to examine the issue. The President and the Prime Minister announced that former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and former Ontario Premier William Davis would be named special envoys to seek ways of combating the problem. Said Mulroney: "We have broken a three-year deadlock by agreeing to our common and shared responsibility to preserve our common environment." Added Reagan: "I couldn't be happier about getting this under...