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There is little question about the verdict. Both Party Chairman Hua Guofeng and former Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping have publicly declared the group of four to be guilty. In the past, Hua has given assurance that the four would not be executed. But last week official Chinese Spokesman Zeng Tao claimed that reports of Hua's remarks "were not entirely accurate" and did not rule out the death penalty...
Though chattels, women in polygamous Asia were better off than their sisters in the monogamous West because of the nature of the Tao and Tan-trie religions, which saw sex as an expression of a larger cosmic harmony. When a Chinese husband had intercourse with at least ten of his numerous wives and concubines in a night, it was less to prove his manhood than to receive an abundance of their precious yin essence...
...along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over 20 years, have reportedly been released. The People's Daily declared that China's government would "staunchly and consistently" uphold article 46 of China's 1978 constitution. Article 46 guarantees that the people have "freedom to believe in religion and freedom...
...prickly after three weeks of talks that "we walked away saying, 'Let's part in friendship.' " The Chinese, Goldberg recalls, then coolly "took us to the Peking opera that evening and the next morning put us on a train to Ts'ing-tao to see the brewery there. Through the train window, they said, 'We'll see you in Peking to resume negotiations.' They had wanted to see if we might say something different, the night before, when we were together socially. We didn't, so they knew we meant business...
...toward the right over Carter due to his neat turnaround on Proposition 13, plus his call for a Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced U.S. budget, Brown has Carter worried over the religious issue. Carter may have the support of the Fundamentalists, the Born-Again folk, but Brown taps the Tao, culls the Zen support, rides the whole neo-Eastern-religious-cultists-pseudo-mystical wave. And Carter can scarcely forget that out of the last ten or so primaries in 1976 he only won a handful, and lost every head-to-head match he had with Brown...