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...guns. Inside the chamber 51 members of the Fijian Parliament sat listening as a colleague expounded on the history of the islands. "Peace and harmony is the governing principle on which the Fijians have been running their lives," said Taniela Veitata. "This is in contrast to what Mao Tse-tung believed -- that political power comes out of the barrel...
...quite natural and easy to be internationalist after 1945, World War II had made us painfully aware of our ties to other parts of the world and our stake in avoiding another global conflict. Russia's march into Eastern Europe and Mao Tse Tung's rise to power made us all fear communist expansion and appreciate that we could never again enjoy the pleasures of isolation...
Deng's task now is to put the Humpty-Dumpty coalition back together again. Unlike his predecessor, Mao Tse-tung, Deng has never striven for absolute dominance but instead has shown himself a master at finding the center of the shifting political debate. Foreign observers expect him to remain in power, but with somewhat diminished support. "It would be hard to conceive of Deng being toppled," says Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the - University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies. Experts also agree that while the pace of Deng's reforms may be slowed, they will not be rolled back...
...this intensity began to leak out of his work after the shooting, and by the end of the '70s it was gone. His energy last flickered in the hieratic images of Mao Tse-tung (1973) and perhaps in the 1976 paintings of hammers and sickles. The rest was mostly social portraiture, liquor endorsements and bathetic collaborations with junior burnouts like Jean-Michel Basquiat, along with one single-theme edition of prints after another. But even in decline, Warhol remained indicative...
...first hard evidence that Deng was slipping came on Feb. 16, when major Chinese newspapers published a 1962 speech he made attacking Mao Tse-tung for both his one-man rule and his disastrous economic policies during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-60. Some observers took this as an attack on Deng's own leadership. Said one Asian diplomat: "I can't believe Deng wanted that old speech to be printed. It is too easy to interpret as an attack on himself...