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Deng Xiaoping, 81, looking fit and vigorous in a dark gray Mao suit, appeared in the east wing of Peking's Great Hall of the People to greet 60 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a TlME-sponsored news tour. The group was led by Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Corporate Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan. In the past seven years, Deng, who was once sent into internal exile as a "capitalist-roader," has introduced broad and dramatic economic reforms that have decentralized decision-making and placed more reliance on free...
...eldest daughter, a 35-year-old mother of three, and a companion, Ana Cecilia Villeda, 23, were released last week, badly disoriented but in good physical health, 44 days after they were kidnaped outside New San Salvador University by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the left-wing antigovernment guerrilla group. In the sweet first moment of reunion, no words were needed. "There was only crying," reported Communications Minister Adolfo Rey Prendes, whose face was also streaked with tears. As he led the former captives away, Duarte showed the strain of both a worried father and a politician...
That measured rationale won no sympathy from the right-wing opposition party ARENA, which sharply criticized Duarte for capitulating to the kidnapers. Even before the exchange of prisoners, an advertisement in the national newspaper El Diario de Hoy asked, "How will it be explained to the soldiers who in the field of battle captured these freed insurrectionists?" Of more immediate concern to the President was the reaction of the Salvadoran armed forces, which lately have had a hard time combatting the guerrillas' hit-and-run attacks. One field commander circulated a petition objecting to the negotiations with the guerrillas. Duarte...
...later said that the suspension of liberties would apply only to a dozen military officers and civilians, whom he had a few days earlier ordered detained on charges of plotting to use violence "against democratic institutions and people." Authorities fear that the bombing campaign is the work of right-wing extremists who are unhappy about the government's trial of nine former members of the military junta for human rights violations. Moreover, Alfonsín's ruling Radical Party faces sensitive congressional elections on Nov. 3. Under the circumstances, the government evidently decided not to risk having the vote marred...
Hewitt, concerned about recent CBS takeover attempts by Ted Turner and a right-wing group called Fairness in Media, says he was only trying to protect the news division from possible meddling by ideologues and corporate raiders. Yet some CBS staffers contend that Hewitt was implicitly taking a swipe at the team of Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Edward Joyce, president of CBS News. Though Hewitt denies that Sauter and Joyce were his targets, many CBS employees blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle...