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...editors. After viewing some of China's free-market experiments and spending more than an hour with Deng, the tour participants agreed that the country's transformation far surpassed their expectations. Says Senior Editor Henry Muller: "In addition to the physical dimension--the construction and the traffic--we were struck by the openness and pragmatism of the officials we met. They subjected us to none of the ideological rhetoric you get from even the most enlightened officials in the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe...
...names and ages: Abdel Aziz Merzoughi, 25; Ben Ahmed Chaoval, 25; and Mongi Ben Ab-dollah Saadqoui, 26. One of the two who were captured replied to questions in Arabic and claimed that he came from Lebanon. Wounded in the abdomen, he is expected to survive. The other was struck in the thorax and was in a coma. Austrian police said that all three were Arabs...
...jerry-build from scratch in 1984. But Hart is also the only candidate bearing scars from the last race. Organized labor, a powerful force in the party, has not forgiven his attacks on "special interests" backing his ultimately successful rival for the presidential nomination, Walter Mondale. In addition, he struck many voters as a paradoxical combination of cold, aloof technocrat and movie star manqué who let his unexpected victories in early primaries go to his head...
Even the newest equipment can fail, however, if it is not properly repaired and maintained. The 747 that struck a mountain in Japan apparently lost control of its rear navigation system. Boeing has since acknowledged that a repair of the back hull, which it performed seven years before the accident, was improperly done. In view of that, the FAA ordered immediate reinspection of all similar repairs. The agency has been cracking down on improper maintenance practices. Says Engen: "In the past two years, we have put on the ground, or severely restrained, 52 airlines." A grounded carrier may not legally...
Meanwhile, it seems, the class of '55 has struck once more. This June, Charles Black will leave Yale's Sterling professorship to take up a teaching job at Columbia under a new boss. Yes, it's his former pupil, Dean Barbara Black...