The World - News from Jan. 30, 1986
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Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who has not been seen in public since mid-December, is in excellent health, according to Hu Yaobang, Communist Party chief. The official New China News Agency quoted Hu as saying that Deng, 81, made a speech earlier this month at a session of the standing committee of the ruling Politburo. The Foreign Ministry has also denied reports, circulating among diplomats in Peking, that Deng is ailing.
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