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Similar stories of crime are coming from other cities. In Tianjin (Tientsin), the local press last month reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait...
In accordance with China's usually stern practice, sentences have been tough. At least five people have been executed in the past month for crimes ranging from embezzlement to murder. Even in cases involving juvenile offenders, the courts show little leniency. Rejecting arguments that teen-age criminals should be...
The gravest threat to Gueiler's administration arises, as it usually does in Bolivia, from the armed forces. Three days after she was presented with the red, gold and green ceremonial sash of the presidency, Gueiler was handed a blunt de mand by a coalition of young pro-democratic...
Finally Gueiler, who had been a confidante of Chile's late Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, caved in to Garcia Meza's demand, appointing Rocha Patino to the army post last week. He obligingly proclaimed that the protesting officers were now ready "to bear with dignity and stoicism...
An angular, thin-lipped economic planner from the southern Ukraine, Tikhonov is considered by Kremlinologists to be a loyal follower of President Leonid Brezhnev, 72, and a probable successor to ailing Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 75. Rumored to have suffered a heart attack, Kosygin has not been seen in public since...