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...devastating Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, Chou -with Mao's blessing-has gone a long way toward reconstituting the shattered party apparatus. But five years after reconstruction began, the task is only half completed. Of the 29 top party positions in China's provinces, eight are still vacant. China's military, 3.5 million strong, still has no Minister of Defense, no chief of staff and no top naval commander. The coalition of political interests that makes up the party leadership group remains awkwardly strained; military leaders try to hold on to the power they gained during...
Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...
Graham referred to City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who last week submitted an order in the City Council to instruct the city manager and city rent control board to decontrol rents on all apartments that become vacant...
...count him out. Last week he moved swiftly to stem a total collapse of his Cabinet by shifting one of his loyal followers, Masayoshi Ohira, 64, from Foreign Minister to Fukuda's post at Finance. He named two other well-known and respected L.D.P. veterans to the other vacant posts: Toshio Kimura, 65, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kichizo Hosoda, 62, to Hori's old job. From now on, however, the abrasive, aggressive Tanaka will have to tread much more tenderly. Fukuda and his allies will be waiting to exploit any false step...
...early March 1971, Cox almost single-handedly brought a non-violent end to a nine-day occupation by militant women of a vacant building at 888 Memorial Drive. Two weeks later, Cox earned notoriety among Harvard radicals for his part in the controversy surrounding the pro-war "counter teach...