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...Vacant Posts. Why would the professional military resist party authority? For one thing, the army may only be trying to prevent any reduction of the great power it has held in the provinces since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1969. For another, the military leaders, who tend to be relatively conservative and rigid, may feel that the endless leftist experimentalism of Mao Tse-tung has retarded China's development. A secret Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well...
Probably, all of this will be hidden during Kissinger's four-day stay. But the issues are too important to remain under wraps for long. Key positions in the military hierarchy, including the jobs of Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, have been vacant since Mao's onetime heir-apparent, Lin Piao, allegedly attempted to assassinate the Chairman in 1971. Apparently the party and the army have been unable to agree on suitable candidates for these very powerful posts. That alone spells serious trouble for the leadership's efforts to pull the country together in preparation...
...support of his resolution, Vellucci argued that decontrol on vacant apartments would relieve the tax burden on small homeowners and encourage new building construction...
Watkins said, "If we defined vacant apartments as a particular category, we could decontrol rents in that category...
...resolution's opponents also said decontrolling only vacant apartments was illegal. Councilor Barbara Ackermann said, "The law allows a city to adopt controls or not adopt them. The law does not allow a city to make up its own controls...