Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What a difference a year makes. After months of intraparty squabbling, last week's session was less about consolidation than about compromise. To be sure, Zhao's keynote speech, long viewed as an index of whether Deng's program would move forward, was a ringing endorsement of modernization. But Zhao watered down that optimism by noting it would take longer than expected to make the reforms work. Moreover, Deng's dreams of transferring power to a loyal successor remained largely unrealized. Although the final makeup of the Politburo, its Standing Committee and the party Secretariat will not be known until...
...been disinclined so far to follow Beijing's lead in returning the land to the peasants. Gorbachev has proposed a modified version of the Chinese plan that would lease marginal land from state and collective farm holdings to enterprising homesteaders and organize farm workers into family brigades. In his speech to the June plenum of the Central Committee, he praised such contract teams, citing a family in the Brest region of Belorussia that managed to increase milk yields per cow from 2,917 kilograms to 5,580 kilograms in only two years. But so far the Kremlin cannot point...
...time when the Chinese have paused to catch their breath, the Soviets have spurted ahead in the more nebulous area of reform termed glasnost. Chinese Kremlin watchers were stunned when Gorbachev rebuked at least 16 ministers and party officials by name in his June speech to the Central Committee plenum. And nothing in China can quite compare with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded...
Several Ivy League professors participated, and Yale president Benno C. Schmidt delivered a speech on constitutional law and homosexuals...
Sampeck hinted in her resignation speech that she was not the only one who had cheated and suggested that Jacobsen also committed election indiscretions, Penn said...