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...religious grounds, support the leaders of their churches and country. During the past 35 years in China, there has been a "love church, love country" practice that permeates the Christian communities. Chinese Christians are trying their very best to seek unity among their diverse traditional backgrounds of Christianity in socialist China. American Christians have much to learn from them...
...defeat cannot be minimized. Under Pierre Trudeau the Liberal Party had fashioned an electoral coalition made up of women, young people, ethnic minorities, and French-speaking Canadians. Each of the groups spurned John Turner, Mr. Trudeau's successor. The critical electoral fortress of Quebec has been lost. The socialist New Democrat Party regained many supporters that Mr. Trudeau had successfully weaned away. Despite Mr. Turner's courageous decision to seek and win a seat in Western Canada--the one part of the country that remained impervious to Mr. Trudeau's charms--the beachhead is small...
...turned Hong Kong into the world's third-largest financial center. Above all, the new "Hong Kong, China" will preserve all its rights and freedoms, including those of speech, press, movement and religion. The Sino-British agreement even went so far as to state categorically that "the socialist [i.e., Communist] system will not be practiced in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...
...bonuses. The latest reforms have given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists, will be a cut in state subsidies that keep prices of some goods artificially low. "We do not deny that we are pragmatists, but our final goal of creating a socialist society remains unchanged," says Gyula Kovács, vice president of the National Planning Office. "The ways of reaching that goal are different. We leave it to history to judge which is better...
...early idol was Herbert Hoover, whom the magazine briefly touted as a presidential candidate for 1920. By the 1930s, the editorials were explicitly socialist. In 1946 former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics...