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...recent arrest of some of China's wealthiest citizens and those accused of being their official patrons. The political system desperately needs reform. And China's leadership will take time to gel?even though now, with his key prot?g? Zeng Qinghong apparently ready to accede to the Politburo's Standing Committee, Jiang appears increasingly likely to step down as planned, safe in the knowledge that his influence will remain secure with Zeng around. As Jiang cryptically put it before leaving for the U.S.: "It's just too chilly to remain at this high altitude...
...remoteness and impenetrability of its institutions. Few E.U. detractors go so far as Uno Silberg, an Estonian who keeps a fanciful list of 22 reasons why the E.U. is like the Soviet Union (No. 5, Interpol is like the KGB; No. 11, the European Commission is similar to the Politburo). But many in the east suspect the Brussels game will be permanently rigged against the novices - whose combined GDP, after all, is about the same as the Netherlands'. Klaus says that the conditions of entry offered his country "were a totally unilateral dictate and that the chances of a small...
...awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Kremlin finally lost patience, and Sakharov was exiled to the closed city of Gorky in 1980 after he condemned the invasion of Afghanistan. There he remained until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev - then in power about a year - told the Politburo that Sakharov "appears to have a good head and seems to use it for the good of the country." The exile could return to Moscow. At the time of his death from a heart attack in 1989, he was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies, intent on reforming the Soviet constitution...
...Inside the Finlay, director Concepci?n Campa, a Politburo member, oversees an assembly line of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis, tetanus and meningitis. When a meningitis epidemic hit the U.S. in the late '90s, the pharmaceutical giant Smith-Kline came calling - working around the softened U.S. economic embargo against Cuba - to buy a special vaccine that Campa herself had developed. Asked if Cuba had any bio-weapons research going on in its labs that Time couldn't see, Campa strongly denied it. "You see all this equipment we've imported, even for things as simple as conserving the low temperatures...
...That sentiment is precisely what worries Beijing. As China gears up for an expected succession struggle in the Politburo later this year, the Communist Party wants to ensure that no group nibbles away at its hold on power. Thus Beijing's severe crackdown on Falun Gong, the Buddhist-exercise movement that spooked China's leaders by getting 10,000 followers to protest in front of Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime...