Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since settled into an uneasy standoff, as Deng has sought the middle ground. That was clearly evident last week when Premier Zhao Ziyang, a leading Deng disciple, delivered the Congress's opening address. While some reformers "are not sober-minded enough," Zhao declared in his 1-hour, 50-minute speech, their conservative opponents may not be "mentally emancipated enough." In any case, Zhao said, the government has already rooted out the worst excesses of reform: "After several months of work since the end of last year, we have curbed bourgeois liberalization, which was once quite widespread." Having said that, however...
Zhao, 68, painted a grim picture of the Chinese economy. Echoing a conservative rallying cry, Zhao began his speech by demanding boosts in grain production. Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected...
...dissent is clearly at an end. Deng Liqun, a leading member of the party secretariat and the conservatives' chief ideologue, has shut at least seven liberal newspapers and journals since January and is reasserting party control over virtually all Chinese publications. Said a Communist official in a recent speech: "As everyone knows, journalism is a component of the party's undertakings and is its mouthpiece." Deng Liqun has also reinstated political indoctrination in China's schools. Peking University students must now attend two political classes a week, and most college students are required to spend part of their vacations toiling...
...make rounds of wards. Retirement and nursing homes are welcoming pets too. The Tacoma Lutheran Home in Washington boasts a menagerie of furry and feathery live-ins. Some have aided in physical therapy. A stroke patient who had lost motor skills groomed an Angora rabbit; another worked on speech problems by talking to a cockatiel...
...Oval Office after his landslide re-election victory last November. An initial foray into Iowa drew mixed reviews. But Dukakis, generally far more impressive in small groups than on a podium, gave a relaxed and polished performance at the New Hampshire state Democratic dinner early this month. His speech combined a vision of an entrepreneurial yet compassionate Democratic Party, pointed references to local issues like his opposition to the Seabrook nuclear power plant, and a rare evocation of his immigrant heritage...