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...sacked for supporting last year's protests, have been demoted or dismissed. Last week Premier Li Peng told reporters that Zhao, who has not been seen in public since last May, is a "free man" but is still under investigation for political crimes. Meanwhile, the party process of Maoist- style "self-criticism," or recantation, continues...
...doing running for President? "Risking everything! I wouldn't be doing this otherwise!" Vargas Llosa says with a laugh. He is not exaggerating. Peru suffers from an inflation rate of nearly 3,000% a year. Ten people are killed daily in political violence in Peru, the majority by the Maoist terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The average Peruvian's standard of living has dropped more than 50% since 1985. Corruption thrives in the bloated, inefficient state bureaucracy. Only Vargas Llosa seems to want the job of managing the nearly unmanageable country. Even for those who oppose...
...certainly say there's no way there will be a peaceful transition to communism," says Lawrence, whose party is affiliated with the Maoist Shining Path guerillas of Peru. "The people who are in power now are not going to give it up unless it is taken from them...
Heavy security was ordered in case of attacks by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group that has fought Peruvian governments since...
...leader of Burkina Faso to Beijing has fueled new rumors that the 85-year-old Chinese leader is seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference of hard-liners...