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Down at the city's emergency command post on Hampshire Street, several hundred calls flooded switchboards all day long. Armed with walkie talkies and flashlights, city department heads huddled around a black and white television set for weather updates and fielded citizens' questions until last night...
...Command Decision...
Still, some members of the Old Guard stubbornly cling to power. Such veterans as President Li Xiannian, 76, and Marshal Ye Jianying, 86, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party Politburo and vice chairman of the party's military commission, continue to command a following in the military establishment. While they accept the reforms, they are said to harbor some doubts about their pace and scope. Among the most formidable of the pragmatists' adversaries is Chen Yun, a central planner who masterminded the Soviet-style economic programs of the '50s. He is said to believe that...
Cleveland City Councilman Jay Westbrook, who sponsored the July 15 resolution, said the council "felt compelled to call on an institution with the prestige and recognition of Harvard to recognize that there's a higher command we should all abide...
...feature film made. "There are times when you just don't believe they make movies," says Epps. Still, there are compensations. The price for an Epps-Cash script goes up with each non-picture and can now cost in the $300,000-to-$350,000 range. ^ Admits Epps: "We command a pretty good figure for not having a movie produced...