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...least 15 government officials and three businessmen have been arrested and charged with violations of the Official Secrets Act and criminal conspiracy against the government. Several of them were officials in the defense and commerce ministries, and three men held key positions in the Prime Minister's secretariat. Among them: T.N. Kher, the personal assistant to P.C. Alexander, a top aide to both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and one of the country's most respected civil servants. Alexander, who was not connected to the espionage activity, resigned after accepting "moral responsibility" for the leakage of hundreds of files from...
...movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must be free" and pledged that writers would never again become victims of political persecution. According to the People's Daily, some of the delegates wept openly with joy. Though Hu did not define what "freedom of creation" meant...
China's future leaders are now emerging. At a party meeting in late December, Deng lavishly praised several younger members, including Hu Qili, who is in charge of the Secretariat's day-to-day operations and who, at 56, is considered a rising star. Deng also announced a party delegate conference for next September to elect as many as 50 new members to the 346-seat Central Committee. The anticipated housecleaning is intended to make room for younger, more open-minded and better-educated officials who are likely to promote rather than resist reform. Efforts are also under...
...from a liver disease or felled by a stroke. Western analysts believe that Warsaw Pact Commander Viktor Kulikov, 63, is the most plausible contender to succeed him. One civilian thought to be in the running is Grigori Romanov, 61, the former Leningrad party chief who joined the Central Committee Secretariat last year...
Lord Porchester, the Queen's racing manager, says that she is "an absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...