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...families that make up the village-size Jun Tan Production Brigade, only a few miles from the lordly Yangtze River in Anhui province, have made some coveted purchases recently: 44 radios, eleven sewing machines, five bicycles, 47 wristwatches and 17 wall clocks. In the affluent West, that might appear unremarkable; in China it is a veritable cornucopia of consumerism. Every family in the brigade possesses an alarm clock, 90% of the families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with...
...relatively well-off Jun Tan brigade is doing far better than the average Chinese rural village. Its per person annual revenue of $201 is well above the national rural average of only $91, and with good reason. Jun Tan's income has doubled since the brigade started practicing two years ago the responsibility system, the basic principle of which is pragmatic: produce more, keep more for yourself...
Until the policy began to be gradually introduced, all Chinese peasants were grouped into production teams that worked the land in common. Each laborer earned work points, which were exchanged for a ration of grain and a small cash stipend. But in Jun Tan, as in an estimated 40% of China's villages, work points have now been abolished. Instead, each family has been allocated a plot of land to farm as it sees fit. The peasant gets seed and fertilizer free the first year; the second year the farmer uses his own money, or borrows...
Outside of competition, though, Johnson isn't nearly so intense. Besides the kidding he regularly takes for having the team's only year-round tan and for having tight muscles--the source of many bad jokes--he has lately been a leader in the infamous "arm-jogger" plot. As soon as they received them from an eager salesman, the team decided the arm-joggers, hand-weights for training, were utterly worthless. So far, two batches have mysteriously disappeared, and Coach McCurdy's resulting investigation has been rather lackadaisical...
...trail of the tan van carried federal agents to New Orleans, where Boston and Johnson live, and then on to rural Gallman, Miss., 30 miles south of Jackson. At a local farmhouse they found and arrested Boston. Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently...