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...post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...
...campaign against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...
Some baseball observers were aghast at the huge sum laid out for a player who had hit over .300 only twice in his eight-year major league career. Is Winfield worth it? Says Baltimore Oriole General Manager Hank Peters: "Not in my judgment. I don't think any athlete in any team sport can be important enough to command that kind of money." But Winfield had a ready retort: "Everything has a market value. How do you set a price on a precious...
...Watergate evidence (specifically, the burning of files removed from Howard Hunt's office safe), was the scapegoat for Felt and Miller in their trial. They insisted that he had authorized the break-ins. To try to prove that Gray had that power, defense lawyers put five former Attorneys General and Richard Nixon on the stand. Though Judge Bryant did not explain his sentences, he may have decided that what Felt called the "serious blemish" of conviction was nearly ample punishment. Bryant, says Deputy Attorney General Charles Renfrew, "apparently felt that they had been punished and that the message...
This is not to say that all is dragon-free in the world of children's literature. The fragmentation of the nuclear family, the new consciousness of black and women's history and of human rights in general have engendered a series of "problem books" that confuse as often as they enlighten. Lower reading scores have been reported in grade schools throughout the country. And although specialists regard children's literature as a rich and complex genre, its artists and writers are too frequently appraised by critics as a species of emotional retards...