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Today Shanghai is one vast construction site. More than 20,000 projects, including 5,000 major ones, are under way as 27,000 companies build bridges, tunnels, flyovers, ring roads, hotels, villas, golf courses and public housing. The "crane," quips Vice Mayor Zhao Qizheng, should be designated the city's official bird...
...Yaobang, for pushing political reforms. By this time the only title Deng held was honorary chairman of the Chinese Bridge Association (he had refused all high posts since his 1977 comeback, and in 1989 gave up the critical job as head of the Central Military Commission). Still, Premier Zhao Ziyang admitted to the visiting Mikhail Gorbachev that all major Politburo decisions had to be approved by Deng...
Researcher Mei Zhao suffered burns to her face and arms and was taken to Beth Israel hospital. Researcher Tec Jain Tec suffered arm and hand burns and was taken to Brigham & Women's hospital. Both women were released Friday after-noon...
...fickle as it is brutal. Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic has had no fewer than six heirs apparent, not one of whom held that position for more than five years. Deng's earlier choices for succession, Party Secretary Hu Yaobang and Premier Zhao Ziyang, were both unceremoniously dumped when conservatives deemed them overly tolerant of liberal ideas...
...long demanded -- save one critical component: it will no longer accept Aristide's resumption of the presidency. The accord also requires the removal of military ruler Cedras. Phillipe claimed that talks have been opened with China in hopes of landing Cedras a face-saving ambassadorship. Zhao Hufei, the counselor at China's U.N. mission, confirmed that discussions were under way, saying, "Anything is possible if we have diplomatic relations with Haiti." Such relations do not exist because Aristide recognized rival Taiwan...