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...moment [the country is] floundering around. You get a little piecemeal reform: the sex laws are repealed. It's like someone wanting to be praised because he's stopped beating his wife. It's crazy. It is not the height of my ambition in South Africa to cohabit with a white person. It's nonsense. Who introduced these laws in the first place? And now we must praise them because they've suddenly discovered they don't need these laws. Yet if the government said it was going to abolish apartheid laws one, two, three--the dramatic impact could change...
...allowed to funnel some of their profits back into expansion, for instance, was first tried in Chongqing. So was another innovation: decreasing the decision-making power of political cadres in plants and increasing the power of local managers. Observes Long Zeyuan, deputy director of the city's economic-system reform commission: "In the old days, all the decisions were made on a political level by people who didn't think about profit or prices or market conditions...
...commissioners of Alabama's Jefferson County announced last week that they would no longer use prison inmates on road gangs. Penal reform? No. In part, at least, a fear of AIDS. If a citizen caught the incurable disease from a prisoner, explained Commissioner Ray Moore, the county might be sued. Despite evidence that the AIDS virus can be transmitted only through an exchange of blood or semen, Moore claimed that "the danger was great," even though the likelihood of anyone's having intimate contact with convicts on a road crew would seem slight...
...Cadet Captain Chris Borgerding. Plebes are constantly "corrected" by upperclassmen, but hazing is forbidden. For years, plebes were so busy reciting and saluting at mealtime that they went hungry and lost weight. The more famished cadets were known to eat toothpaste for bulk. Now, after a typical West Point reform, plebes are ordered to eat. "It isn't milk and cookies," insists Cadet First Captain Timothy Knight, the ranking cadet who is also known as the King of Beasts. "Plebes still feel the heat." Many find it too much to bear. Almost one-third of each class drops...
...relaxed, wide-ranging conversation that lasted for more than an hour, China's leader offered his thoughts on economic reform in his country and how it can be sustained, the new problem of corruption, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union and next month's Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva. As is his custom, Deng chain-smoked throughout the meeting. Speaking in his deep, heavily Sichuan-accented voice, he was by turns tough, charming and self-effacing. Excerpts from the session...