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...clear-cut victory for the forces of modernization and pragmatism, led by Deng, over the proponents of conservative party orthodoxy, captained by Hua. The changes also reflect a desire on the part of Deng and his colleagues for a system of more truly collective leadership, free of the totalitarian one-man rule installed by Mao. The Congress, in fact, will consider how to improve the new local and regional election process. In China's one-party system the process is hardly democratic, but it could open up the country's vast, entrenched bureaucracy to new people who have...
...spectacle is not shaping up as the kind of party that many democratic countries would feel comfortable attending. As the Soviets prepared to receive 150,000 or so visitors (about half the total expected before the boycott), Moscow resembled a giant Potemkin village being gussied up by a heavy, totalitarian hand...
...single statement: "Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zeal ots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy." The antinuclear move ment in our own country is not Jane Fonda. It is a broad-based coalition of people who fear irreparable harm to the environment and the totalitarian mea sures that would certainly have to be taken to ensure security - if that is pos sible - in a nuclear world...
...route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going over the legal 37 m.p.h. limit...
DIED. Jacob Laib Talmon, 64, Israeli professor of history and international authority on totalitarianism; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. A brilliant lecturer at Jerusalem's Hebrew University since 1949, he was the author of several magisterial books, notably The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth...