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...saffron-robed Tibetan monks were arrested for taking part in an anti-Chinese demonstration outside Lhasa's Jokhang Temple. Four days later a mob of 2,000 Tibetans gathered in central Lhasa, set fire to a police station and stoned the fire fighters who tried to put out the blaze. In the ensuing battle, at least eight Tibetans and six Chinese police were reported killed. Though the number of victims was relatively small, the rioting was the first in Lhasa in a decade and some of the worst since the Chinese crushed a widespread revolt in 1959, an event that...
...abdomen. He raped her, beat her and slit her throat with a knife. The two hours of viciousness ended when he dumped her body on the city's east side and set the body afire to cover his crime. But an off-duty state trooper spotted the blaze, and minutes later Rault, reeking of gasoline, was arrested running from beneath a highway overpass...
...cause of the blaze is as yet undetermined,according to Rose...
Little relief is in sight for the exhausted residents of the northeastern Heilongjiang province. Light rain and snow, some of it natural, some induced through cloud-seeding techniques, failed last week to quell the blaze. While the construction of firebreaks covering more than 600 miles helped, a 14-mile chain of fires farther west continued to burn out of control. Chinese officials warned that strong winds could fan the embers in smoldering areas. Conceded a gloomy forest ministry report: "The prospect is by no means optimistic...
...there is much that is evocative in the new work. In the preludic "Dawn" the themes gradually emerge and coalesce, blaze luminously and then recede. "Daylight" is a scurrying scherzo marked by buzzing strings, hiccuping brass and chattering woodwinds. The slow movement, "Dusk," is the work's emotional center, a lambent watercolor of uncommon beauty. After this, the finale comes as something of a letdown. The symphony's clear textures give way to a muddiness that cannot be entirely justified by the "Darkness" sobriquet. Harbison rejected his first draft as too light in mood, but the symphony now ends diffidently...