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ANTI-PARTY ACTIVITIES ARE PROHIBITED.
8.BUT EVEN THIS REPRESSION, IT IS EVIDENT WITH THE PASSAGE OF
TIME, HAS HAD LIMITED IMPACT.A VISIT TO VIRTUALLY ANY MAJOR CITY
OUTSIDE PEKIN, AND IN PARTICULAR IN COASTAL AREAS, SHOWS THAT
CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE IN CAPITAL HAS LITTLE RESONANCE IN
PROVINCES.EVEN PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS ARE BY COMPARISON VERY
MUTED.IN PEKIN ITSELF,OVER LAST SIX MONTHS OUR INTERLOCUTORS AND
PARTNERS IN VARIOUS EXCHANGES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY CONFIDENT
AND AGGRESSIVE IN PURSUING CONTACTS #ITH US.
9.THERE ARE NO/NO SIGNS OF SPECIFIC ATTACKS ON OUTWARD
́MANIFESTATIONS OF WESTERNIZATION:THERE WERE MORE MINI-SKIRTS THIS
SUMMER THAN LAST,FALCONCREST CONTINUES TO PLAY ON TV,TV
ADVERTISING OPENLY FROMOTES WESTERN STYLE CONSUMERISM, THERE IS
MORE WESTERN MUSIC ON RADIO THAN A YEAR AGO.IN SHORT,LITTLE
EVIDENCE ON THE GROUND HERE OF HONG PERCEPTION OF DOOR QUOTE
MORE HEAVILY GUARDED TO KEEP OUT BOURGEOIS VALUES UNQUOTE.
10.BENEATH ALL THE POUNDING OF DRUMS AND CRASHING OF
CYMBALS,REALIZATION HAS SET IN THAT THERE IS NO/NO ALTERNATIVE TO
REFORM AND OPENING IF PARTY IS TO MAINTAIN ANY SEMBLANCE OF
POPULAR CAEDIBILITY AND ABILITY TO LEAD CHINA TO MEET AMBITIOUS
MODERNIZATION GOALS.PARTY PLENUM NOW EXPECTED SOMETIME IN
DECEMBER WILL UNAMBIGUOUSLY ENDORSE THIS, THOUGH FORMULATION OF
REFORM CBJECTIVES IN NEAR TERM WILL CONTINUE TO BE CONSERVATIVE
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