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...appointment of Premier Zhao Ziyang to succeed Hu ad interim is designed to symbolize a continued commitment to reform. For the moment Deng has only conceded the need to restore discipline among the students in particular and the intellectual community generally. But this means a reemphasis on ideological orthodoxy. The "hundred flowers" of intellectual diversity and academic speculation may be cut down, as they were 30 years ago in an "anti-rightist campaign...
Conservative ideologues should also be able to capitalize on an uneasiness among some party members that setting up stock exchanges is not what socialism should be about. So if Zhao Ziyang is unable to take new measures to maintain the momentum of the reform program, it could be undermined by wary supporters and beneficiaries taking shelter for fear of political counter-attacks...
...Peking play about youths who suffered because of the Cultural Revolution. Yet they allowed audiences to see a satirical work called Rubik's Cube that lampooned various aspects of Chinese life. Faced with criticism on so many fronts, reformers launched counterattacks to keep their revolution rolling. Premier Zhao Ziyang's State Council issued new regulations urging plant managers to establish direct links with their customers and suppliers in order to skirt the ponderous Chinese bureaucracy. Peking also promoted public debate over whether state enterprises should issue stock and how to encourage investment capital...
...piece of the action that the firm had to turn away thousands of individuals who responded to an advertisement posted at the store's entrance. The stock offering had official approval: it was orchestrated by the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System, which is headed by Premier Zhao Ziyang...
...outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists" (so called because of their belief that whatever Mao said...