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...story offered by the other two crew members of the China Airlines jet on their return to Taiwan strengthened those suspicions. Copilot Tung Kuang- hsing said that Wang had choked him with a steel chain and handcuffed him in the cockpit. Flight Engineer Chiu Ming-chih said that at one point the plane swerved out of control as he knelt before Wang, begging him to change his mind. The captain, however, reportedly threatened his crewmates with an ax and muttered, "I'm sorry. I've been planning this for a long time...
...President Richard Nixon raised his glass in the Great Hall of the People and quoted from the popular poetry of Mao Tse-tung. " 'So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently,' " intoned Nixon. " 'Seize the day, seize the hour...
...port of Malmo. Thage Peterson, Sweden's Industry Minister, said the government has pumped $4.7 billion into the shipbuilding industry over the past decade, but finally decided to end the Kockums subsidies because the firm had received no new orders in more than two years. In Hong Kong, the Tung family fleet of some 150 ships has nearly gone aground because of $2 billion in debts. A group of the Tungs' bankers helped bail out the company this month by giving it easier payment terms. The demand for cargo ships has been slackening since the mid-1970s, when oil prices...
...were a few supporters of Deng's modernization drive and daring economic reforms. The majority, however, belonged to an older, revolutionary generation whose primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers of Public Security, as well as such veterans...
Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles. No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast...