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...Daily last week celebrated the 80th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, not with an official announcement but with one of the paper's most unusual articles in recent memory. The subject: Deng's ordeal as a political outcast during the decade of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies, he was exiled...
...bring along promising athletes. Among those trained at such schools is High Jumper Zhu Jianhua, 21, who took the bronze with a leap of 7 ft. 7 in. But perhaps most important, China decided it wanted to win. In place of the political sports slogan of the Mao Tse-tung era, "Friendship first, competition second," came a cross-court smash of a rallying cry: "Break out of Asia and advance on the world...
Jobs are scarce, partly because of the slow return of thousands of people who were shipped off to work in the countryside during the rule of Mao Tse-tung. City officials admit to only 20,000 unemployed, but the real figure is believed to be two to three times higher. Unemployment has led to a wave of petty thefts and burglaries, and the scarcity of many consumer goods has fostered various kinds of corruption, bribery, smuggling, fraud...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Journalist Harrison Salisbury, 75, first approached the Chinese government with the idea of retracing Mao Tse-tung's Long March twelve years ago. "They just laughed," he recalls. But Salisbury persisted, and last fall he was finally given the go-ahead for a 70-day journey along the more than 6,000-mile route that Communist troops trekked on foot to escape Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in 1934-35. With his wife Charlotte, an interpreter and General Qin Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions...
...Deng Xiaoping decided to take one of his grandsons to visit Mao Tse-tung...