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In their yearning for stability, most South Koreans seem ready to accept Chun's ruthless purge of his enemies and his jailing of student leaders. Meanwhile, Chun will continue to push his popular reforms: crackdown on government corruption, reorganization of lagging industries, encouragement of foreign investment.
Jiang Qing assumed power with the assistance of her three fellow gang members: Yao Wenyuan, 56, a literary critic whose extremist articles in the Shanghai daily Wen Hui inaugurated the Cultural Revolution; Wang Hongwen, 43, a party secretary in a Shanghai cotton mill, who in 1973 was elevated by Mao...
Poland's Communist Party was undergoing its own housecleaning. In a continuing purge, Radio and Television Chief Jozef Barecki was sacked just four weeks after replacing his disgraced predecessor, Maciej Szczepanski, still under investigation for embezzlement. Barecki's apparent sin: years of loyal service to discredited ex-Party...
Hooker officials do not deny their mistakes, though they rightly point out that they were made before the hazards were fully understood. The company is spending some $15 million to correct the problems, including sinking a series of "purge" wells designed to draw water from the aquifer, decontaminate it and...
In a high-level crackdown last week just before the congress convened, Petroleum Industry Minister Song Zhenming was ousted after being blamed for an offshore oil-rig accident last November in which 72 people were killed. The incident occurred when a drilling rig that was being towed to a new...