FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TO CONDUCT IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN OPPOSIN BOURGEOIS LIBERALISATION.
IN ECONOMIC POLICY, PRICE REFORM HAD ALREADY BEEN SUSPENDED BEFORE THE DECISIONS AROUT HU WERE TAKEN. IN THE LAST TWO DAYS THERE HAVE BEEN COMMENTARIES FIRST IN ECONOMIC DAILY AND THEN | PEOPLE'S DAILY ATTACKING THE MORP CONSPICUOUS ASPECTS OF CONSUMPTION AND URGING A LOWERING OF EXPECTATIONS AND HARD WORK AND PLAIN LIVING. IN THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL CLIMATE THESE WARNINGS MAY TEND TO DISCOURAGE ECONOMIC INITIATIVE, ESPECIALLY IN THE MORE EXPERIMENTAL AREAS.
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5. ACCORDING TO JAPANESE NEWS AGENCIES, CENTRAL DOCUMENTS NUMBERS TWO AND THREE HAVE JUST BEEN ISSUED. THE FIRST CONTAINS THE TEXT OF DENG'S SPEECH AT THE ENLARGED POLITBURO MEETING AND THE SECOND IS A DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF HU YAOBANG'S OFFENCES. IF THESE REPORTS ARE TRUE, SOME HINTS OF THEIR CONTENTS MAY SOON BEGIN TO APPEAR IN THE CHINESE PRESS. IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR GUIDANCE ON WHERE HU DID GO WRONG TO BE ISSUED TO THE PARTY. OTHERWISE, THOSE CHARGED WITH EXECUTING POLICY WOULD BE CONFUSED BY BEING TOLD SIMULTANEOUSLY THAT POLICIES REMAINED UNCHANGED AND THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS OF THEM HAD COMMITTED POLITICAL MISTAKES.
6. S1GNS ARE ALSO BEGINNING TO EMERGE THAT ZHAO ZIYANG MAY STAY ON FOR A WHILE AS BOTH GENERAL SECREDARY AND PREMIER. ACCORDING TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY, TIAN JIYUN HAS TOLD THE AMBASSADOR THAT A DECISION ON THE POST OF PREMIER WOULD NOT BE TAKEN UNTIL THEGNEXT NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS IN 1988. ZHENG TUOBIN IS ALSO REPORTED BY REUTERS TO HAVE SAID THAT ZHAO WOULD NOT BE GIVING UP THE POST FOR SOME TIME. IF MEDIA PRESENTATION IS AN INDICATOR ABOUT THE SUCCESSION, LU PENG HAS BEEN GATHERING THE BEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE PUBLICITY IN THE CHINESE PRESS.
7. THERE IS STILL NO CONFIRMATION OF THE STORIES THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT, ZHU HOUZE, HAS BEEN DISMISSED. THE MFA INFORMATION DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY THAT HE HAD NOT HEARD THE RUMOURS.
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