... set in motion then appear to be reversing with ominous implications for China and the global community. In 1978, Deng Xiaoping announced, along with other significant changes, a new legal policy summarized in 16 Chinese characters: "There ...

... starting Monday was the most extensive one the government has ordered since the death 11 years ago of communist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the free-market reforms that have brought many Chinese from poverty to moderate prosperity in ...

... 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88. In 1979, President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic ...

... approved a treaty outlawing genocide, 37 years after the pact had first been submitted for ratification. In 1997, Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died.

... statements from a leader who has often seemed to lack the decisiveness of his charismatic predecessors, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Taken at face value, the task he has set himself amounts to nothing less than a repositioning of the army which ...

... President and Party Secretary Jiang Zemin, 70, seems set to be confirmed as the political heir of paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who died in February. He is expected to move China's economy even further down the capitalist road while keeping ...

... laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. In 1976, China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping and appointed Hua Kuo-feng prime minister and first deputy chairman of the Communist Party. Ten years ago: Soviet ...

... Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War. Ten years ago: Zhao Ziyang was appointed head of China's Communist Party, succeeding his mentor, Deng Xiaoping. Today in History