Cable Briefs
Peking reshuffle Two new Vice-Premiers have been appointed by the standing committee of China’s Parliament, and two others have been dismissed, the New China News Agency has reported. The new Vice-Premiers are Mr Zhao Ziyang, aged 61, former party chief of the populous western province of Sichuan and a man tipped as a possible future Premier; and Mr Wan Li, who had been a Vice-Mayor of Peking before being purged at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Mr Ji Dengkui and Mr Chen Xilian were relieved from their posts as Vice-Pre-miers, and the former Peking Mayor, Mr Wu De, resigned as a vice-chairman of the Parliamentary committee. The dismissals remove from the State as well as Communist Party leadership people who have been regarded as hostile to Senior Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping’s policies of economic modernisation and moderate communism. — Peking. SIOM heroin bust An Iranian student was arrested trying to smuggle SUSIO million worth of heroin hidden in tins of caviar through United States Customs. Customs agents found 4.5 kg of uncut heroin when they examined 21 tins of Iranian caviar seized from Mohammad Ali Baetanipour, aged 36, at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the police said. Each tin had a layer of caviar spread over packages lof Iranian heroin. — Chicago.
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