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...occasion was a great leap forward for Deng, his shrewd brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo...
DIED. Edward Ball, 93, for 46 years the shrewd, autocratic chief trustee of the $2 billion Alfred I. du Pont Trust, one of the nation's largest financial empires; of complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include...
...spot Peres last week placed a new name: Shoshana Arbelli-Almozlino, 55, a hawkish Knesset member and teacher, who went to Israel from Iraq. It was a shrewd choice, designed to give Labor more appeal among women and non-European Jews and to counter Peres' own relatively dovish image. In a meeting last week to hammer out the key top half of their final list, Peres sounded oddly hawkish himself. He accused Begin of inconsistency in regard to the occupied territories. "I don't accept Begin's statements," he said at one point. "He says...
...events taking place back in Paris. Most of the film is devoted not to the young people's efforts at escape, but to their attempt to return and link up with what seems to them a generational rite of passage. That is original, and Director Kurys has a shrewd and sympathetic eye for adolescent foibles. In Caron the director has found a youngster who, though she has never acted before, has vulnerability and intelligence. Still the film seems inconsequential. Anne and her friends learn a few things and grow up a notch or two, the way people always...
Then she got very smart, very fast. Her instinct for competitive public relations, as shrewd and sure as her court sense, told her that you only win if you control the game. She knew that the story was shaking loose, and that more denials would only put reporters into a feeding frenzy. She knew that if Barnett had to prove the sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side...