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...measure, it was an impressive political tour de force. When a special six-day conference of the Chinese Communist Party ended in Peking last week, China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, could rejoice in a full-scale tactical victory even though he had made some compromises in the process. As expected, Deng, 81, managed to dislodge practically all of his opponents from the party leadership and replace them with younger, bettereducated and more pragmatic people of his own choosing. Six new members of the Politburo, which has now been reduced from 24 to 20 seats, and three new full members...
...advantage of the August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took off for Sao Paulo, Alexander, 51, the House chief deputy majority whip, was the only Congressman among the nine passengers...
...each of the past four years, distinguished scientists from around the world have gathered in the Sicilian resort town of Erice to conduct seminars on the dangers of nuclear war. For the past two years, the Soviet Union has sent a delegation. But when this year's six-day conference got under way last week, the Soviets did not appear. Instead Moscow simply sent a message to the conference organizer inviting him to the Soviet Union to discuss "our scientific relationship." Speculation as to why the Soviets did not attend has centered on the disappearance in Spain last spring...
...six-day series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...
...concern had little to do with the numbers involved. Israel had released around 4,481 Egyptian POWs after the Six-Day War in exchange for eleven Israelis, and in November 1983 had traded 4,500 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners for six of its own. The problem this time was that the freed Arabs included 167 prisoners who had been convicted of involvement in terrorist acts in which Israelis had been killed. Furthermore, almost half of those released were being permitted to return to their homes in Israel or the occupied territories. Among those released was Ahmed Zmurid, who had been...