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...major indication of Teng's intentions. The Chinese press has accused some local leaders of acting like "patriarchs," "beating and cursing the masses" and even causing "unscrupulous arrests, deaths and disabilities." A document, issued last month by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, instructs local leaders to step up the criticisms of people who are trying to "keep the lid on" the anti-Gang movement. In Kwangtung, according to one broadcast, entrenched followers of the radicals infiltrated an investigation of their own affairs. The result was that evidence compiled on the local activities of the Gang of Four...
...northeastern Heilungkiang province was rehabilitated en masse. More recently, there have been unconfirmed reports that former Peking Mayor P'eng Chen, a major victim of the Cultural Revolution, will be the next former villain to be restored to power. If so, Teng will have advanced one important step further in discrediting the radical legacy...
...last year, when it became apparent that the nation's economy was in the doldrums, Husák was almost displaced as Communist Party chief by his main rival, Premier Lubomir Štrougal. Indeed, according to some reports, for three days Husák was actually forced to step down from office. In near panic, his supporters tried a last-gasp tactic: they telephoned a warning to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. He was appalled by the news and ordered Husák's reinstatement...
That settled, the Cardinals will come forward one by one to pay homage to the new Pope. Messages will be dispatched to the octogenarian Cardinals outside the conclave. Then, with the crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square, the senior Cardinal Deacon will step out on the central balcony of St. Peter's and declare, "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The new Pontiff, the Cardinal will continue, is "the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal --, who has taken the name --." At that moment the world...
President Carter has threatened to veto any tuition tax credit measure, preferring instead to step up aid in the form of direct federal grants and loans to post-secondary school students. His own proposal, sponsored by Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, passed the Senate by a 68-to-28 count, barely 14 hours after the tax credit vote. After the Pell measure was okayed, Oklahoma Republican Henry Bellmon chided his colleagues, declaring: "I cannot imagine why we would pass two bills on two successive days to accomplish essentially the same objective." As it happens, the House-which approved...