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...impact of the latest power struggle is hard to ignore. Last year's toleration of dissent is clearly at an end. Deng Liqun, a leading member of the party secretariat and the conservatives' chief ideologue, has shut at least seven liberal newspapers and journals since January and is reasserting party control over virtually all Chinese publications. Said a Communist official in a recent speech: "As everyone knows, journalism is a component of the party's undertakings and is its mouthpiece." Deng Liqun has also reinstated political indoctrination in China's schools. Peking University students must now attend two political classes...
That activism had its greatest impact on Soviet foreign policy. As Moscow's diplomacy went through a top-to-bottom reorganization, a fresh team of policymakers took power and new ambassadors were assigned to virtually every important capital. The Communist Party's Secretariat underwent a total overhaul, and Anatoli Dobrynin, the longtime Soviet Ambassador to Washington, - was brought home to become Gorbachev's principal adviser on foreign policy. Finally, the Soviet leader gave the propaganda apparatus a new look. The message from Moscow now had a modern, Western style, even though the substance was usually as hard-line as ever...
...member of the Philippines' press secretariat said that an Enrile coup during Aquino's U.S. visit was unlikely...
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 62, Ambassador to Canada from 1973 to 1983, who most recently controlled the propaganda department, joined Dobrynin in the Secretariat. His elevation bolstered rumors that the entire propaganda machinery would fall under Yakovlev's purview...
ALEXANDRA BIRYUKOVA, 57, a trade-union official, was Gorbachev's surprise appointment to the Secretariat. A former textile worker, Biryukova has been a Central Committee member for the past decade. Western diplomats viewed her selection as a gesture to Soviet women, who constitute more than half of the population and the work force...