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...Congress the 76-year-old Deng will fulfill his promise to resign as Senior Vice Premier, ostensibly because of his advanced age. Also expected to relinquish their posts are four other Vice Premiers: Xu Xiangqian, 78, Li Xiannian, 73, Chen Yun, 75, and Wang Zhen...
...rapid industrialization, Peking's leaders have endorsed a more prudent policy of slow but steady growth, with more stress on consumer goods. Last week the Fifth National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament, unveiled both the new approach and its key man, Chen Yun. Named a Vice Premier and head of the newly revived State Finance and Economic Commission, Vice Premier Chen Chen, 79, in effect becomes China's principal economic technocrat and a powerful figure in his own right. Chen had been purged from similar posts after he opposed the Great Leap Forward...
...Communist Party, at once seeking to improve public morale with fair laws and to maintain its total control, is left awkwardly balanced. Explains another deputy director of the Law Institute, Li Pu-yun: "Everyone in China, including party members, is under the law. But at the same time we don't think the law should be almighty." The compromise may be less than satisfactory, but still it is an improvement over the "lawlessness" Peking praised only a decade...
...three men and 16 other persons were tried and sentenced to jail terms of from two to eight years for having issued a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy" at an ecumenical mass in Seoul's Roman Catholic Cathedral on March 1, 1976. their fellow prisoners include former President Yun Po Sun; former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung; his wife, Lee Tai Young, the first woman lawyer in South Korea; and some of the most prominent Catholic and Protestant churchmen in Korea...
...trial's most emotional moments occurred when the frail former President, Yun Po Sun, took the stand. "At the age of 78," he said, "my interest is not in making a political comeback, but only in seeing democracy restored in my country. The end of my life is drawing near every day without my seeing any sign of improvement at all in Korea." Outside the courtroom, the defendants' wives and friends gathered daily on a nearby street corner, wearing large crosses embroidered on their clothes...