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...main targets of the new crackdown are wall posters that have appeared along Peking's "democracy wall" and in other major cities. The posters' bold demands have ranged from freedom of speech to sexual and romantic liberty. One poster pleaded with President Carter to "pay attention to the condition of human rights in China," another quoted from the Declaration of Independence...
Some analysts speculated that Deng had ordered the crackdown under pressure from hard-lining Politburo members in exchange for the right to pursue his modernization program. The new campaign has already had a visible effect on the democracy wall. Last week only one poster defended human rights. The others called for nothing bolder than catching up with the West by the year 2000-in weapons and industry, of course...
...problem that will be solved only when musicians can hear more Western ensembles and study with teachers trained in a different idiom. For now, China's artistic world is celebrating the fall of the Gang of Four. Pipa Player Liu has a lively repertoire again; during the cultural crackdown, he played in the Peking Philharmonic, which could perform exactly nine works...
Reported TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak from Washington: "The Carter crackdown reflected a fear that any policy dissonance would further prejudice U.S. interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf region at large. Despite Carter's open endorsement of the Bakhtiar regime last month, U.S. officials were quietly pleased by Khomeini's choice of Bazargan as transitional Prime Minister. He is viewed by Washington as a patient, conciliatory figure who can get the oilfields pumping again and possibly harness the disparate opposition forces as well as the nervous pro-Shah elements within the military leadership. State Department specialists who have...
...that would preside over elections, a constituent assembly and a referendum on a new constitution. Bakhtiar said he had been negotiating with Khomeini's local representatives, but those plans may have already been jeopardized by the arrests of five leading journalists and the beginning of the army's bloody crackdown...