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January 23, 1984

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a reporter at large

THE WIND OF WANTING TO GO IT ALONE

Orville Schell

REPORTER AT LARGE about China. The Chinese Communist Party has declared Mao Zedong's political line defunct. Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, who…