Word: tian
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...considered the man most likely to succeed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. A Soviet-trained engineer and a technocrat who once headed China's nuclear-energy program, Li became one of the country's four Vice Premiers two years ago. His principal rival for the premiership is Vice Premier Tian Jiyun, 56. Tian's main credential is that he helped to run Sichuan province for ten years as deputy to Zhao...
...stated more and more openly by officials in Peking since the reforms. They are also down-playing another Communist tenet, central control of factories. "In the past, we used to be a mother-in-law, and we relied on 'patriarchal dignity' to direct enterprises," says Deputy Premier Tian Jiyun. "Now we must get off our high horse and become just a simple 'attendant...
Arens was appointed to replace Sharon in February after the tough former general's image was besmirched by the intensive of Beirut and the Chris tian Phalangist massacre of some 700 to 800 Palestinians and other Arabs in refugee camps outside the city. The new minister moved quickly to establish a new atmo sphere in the defense Establishment, and his quiet approach contrasted sharply with the shrill, impulsive outbursts of his predecessor. Still, Arens is as fully committed as Sharon and Begin to Israel's role in Lebanon and to retaining control over the West Bank. The other...
...Christian and 45% Muslim. South Korea demonstrates the world's most dramatic Christian revival: the churches are growing by 6.6% a year, fully two-thirds through conversions rather than the birth rate. By the end of the century, Barrett projects, South Korea will be 42% Chris tian. The U.S. is the most disparate nation of all, Barrett concludes, with 2,050 denominations for its 161 million Christians, plus myriad non-Christians. It has the largest population of Jews in the world, 7.1 million. Between 1900 and 2000, classical Protestantism will have shrunk from two-thirds of the population...
...arms-sale offer to Peking were not enough to rile the Kremlin, American officials last week admitted that for the past year the U.S. and China have run an electronic listening post in the Tian Shan mountains of western China's Xinjiang province. The station monitors missile tests conducted at Soviet bases in Leninsk and Sary-Shagan, in Kazakhstan. Though U.S. technicians installed the equipment and trained the Chinese to run the station, they now visit the site only occasionally to check on maintenance-and, presumably, pick up data...