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...some delegates, all the talk about economic modernization had an ominous sound, since Hu and Deng are believed to be preparing a broad shake-up of the party leadership throughout China in the name of modernization. As one party stalwart explained, "About 10% of the membership is no longer up to the grade." That could spell trouble for some 3.9 million party functionaries and officials who, in Deng's view, have failed to support his ambitious dream of a stable and modern China...
...Rumors spread that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski planned, among other steps, to release all but 600 of the 2,300 prisoners still held, according to official count, in detention camps. At week's end the Communist Party hierarchy was reshuffled in the first major shake-up since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. The main victim was hard-line Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, who lost his key position as the Central Committee secretary in charge of propaganda and ideology. But, as TIME Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski observed after a three-week visit to Poland, the military...
...campaigned against SALT II and in favor of larger defense budgets. Partly because of his reputation for vociferous anti-Sovietism, and partly because the NSC has been trying to avoid publicity, Pipes until now was under orders to keep his strong views out of the press. Following the recent shake-up of the NSC, the new National Security Adviser, William Clark, not only asked Pipes to stay on as the White House's resident Kremlinologist but also allowed him to grant his first interview. Talking with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Pipes discussed the future of Soviet Communism...
...rivals, the shake-up will create both opportunities and challenges aplenty. Virtually overnight, a giant new competitor has loomed up to cast its shadow over their markets. To stay in business, even such multi-billion-dollar corporations as IBM, ITT, RCA and General Telephone & Electronics will have to run harder and innovate faster than they ever have before. Meanwhile, just behind the American companies are Japanese firms like Nippon Electric that are becoming more important every year in the rapidly growing field of high-technology communications...
...Shake-up at the White House...