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Abraham Lincoln said, "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." President Reagan has a chance to make a breakthrough in our relationship with the Soviets if he has the vision to do it. History will judge him as either the President who bankrupted his country preparing for nuclear war or the President who had the courage to stop the arms race. Tired of the cold war, the country is crying our for the latter. Ted Keener Bend...
Deng's sweeping vision for China is all the more remarkable for his lack of intellectual pretense. Unlike the late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second...
...black or white, so long as it catches mice." He also began suggesting that an individual's value in modernizing China lay less in his "redness," or Communist ardor, than in his "expertness," or technical skills. Though his own formal schooling ended early, Deng has repeatedly stressed that his vision for building a new China was bound inextricably to education and research...
...farms and in government offices, ambitious and reform-minded young men and women are steadily moving up. They are frequently better educated than their elders and eager to use their skills to get ahead. Over the next 20 or so years, they will help determine whether Deng Xiaoping's vision of an economically advanced China succeeds or fails...
...vision was as elevated as the track that loops as high as 45 ft. above the city's streets: an inexpensive monorail that would help revive Detroit's demoralized downtown by shuttling people from offices to hotels, restaurants and apartment complexes. But the reality has gone way off track: the 2.9-mile automated rail system known as the Detroit People Mover, originally planned to open this month, is behind schedule, over budget, shoddily built and, critics say, unnecessary. Many Detroiters, whose only other public transportation is a creaky bus system, scorn the People Mover as "a rich folks' roller coaster...