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...motives. One is that the tiny batteries needed to power quartz watches are not widely available in Third World nations, where the Swiss want to expand exports. The other is competition from an unlikely source: the Soviet Union. Clunky Soviet watches -- often made with Swiss tools bought a decade ago -- are now the rage in Europe...
...Rollwagen tells it, the decision turned on a chat he and Cray had four weeks ago in Colorado Springs. "I said to him, 'It's not working, is it, Seymour? It isn't feeling right.' " The two discussed options short of a total split, but Cray kept pressing. "It's almost like he forced me to turn the page," says Rollwagen. "He said, 'Isn't there ((an option)) that would be even cleaner? Let's get on to that one.' It just became very clear to the two of us that this was the right thing...
...demonstration by more than a million Chinese expressing the inexpressible -- a longing for freedom and prosperity -- that transfixed the eye. On Saturday, as government troops were trucked into Beijing to end the protests, China was plunged into a turmoil unrivaled since the Cultural Revolution more than two decades ago...
...Premier left quickly, but Zhao stayed on. A proponent of rapid economic reform, Zhao was well aware that his predecessor, Hu Yaobang, supported political reform and was sacked for not moving quickly enough to crush student demonstrations more than two years ago. (Hu's death on April 15 sparked the first demonstrations of the past tumultuous month.) But in Tiananmen, Zhao did not go out of his way to avoid Hu's mistake. His eyes welling with tears, he acknowledged the patriotism of the students. "I came too late, too late," a student quoted him as saying. "I should...
...barrel of a gun. But the preacher of Chinese Communism neglected to add that the will to fire is a prerequisite when the target is not intimidated by threats and when a society is prepared to resist those with the guns by peaceful means. A week ago, certainly two, the protests might have been extinguished with the number of casualties usual for large demonstrations -- 20, 50, perhaps several hundred deaths. Now, the government might have to kill thousands before the protests would cease...