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Though Chinese politics is forever a mystery to Westerners, one can make out its outlines. Supreme power lies in the six-man Standing Committee of the Politburo. The Politburo of 25 men is where politics shifts and simmers; below it is the 210-member Central Committee, where younger people, engineers, technicians, provincial party leaders voice the growing pressures from below. Outside them all is the army - wary, suspicious, slowly being subordinated by the Standing Committee to the government...
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms stepped off Flight 015. He was part of an official six-man congressional delegation representing the U.S. at a conference in Seoul to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty between South Korea and the U.S. Helms stopped to chat with a young Australian couple and their two daughters from Flight 007. "She was reading to those beautiful little girls," he recalled later, through tears. "It was the most marvelous thing you could have seen." With Helms was Idaho Senator Steve Symms. They looked for Georgia Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, who was scheduled...
...Tigers did that and more, earning themselves a near-certain top seeding in the Eastern Sprints two weeks from now. "They rowed the race of their lives, but everyone knows this isn't the end of the story," Harvard six-man Jess Sparks said...
...rowed a really strong race Saturday Princeton still beat us," Harvard six-man Paul Jeffrey said yesterday. "I think they're definitely for real...
...release The Meaning of Life, the six members of Monty Python Enterprises--Jones, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman. Michael Palin and Eric Idle--split up and followed publicity routes, lunching with groups of admiring reviewers and cavorting before advance-screening audiences through most of March. Jones, the director, covered Boston and New York, but he admits that the effort is somewhat allen to the six-man troupe's usual way of operating. Former pictures have been supported by small independent backers, usually musicians, frequently George Harrison; work habits are commensurately informal, with the six writers splitting into teams...