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...Revolutionaries who had come to my house but also by the former staff of Shell. The man with the tinted spectacles was in charge. He was quite a fluent speaker. He started with the Opium War of 1840, giving a vivid description of how the invading fleet of Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British fleet up the Pearl River. He described Shell as a multinational firm and said that Lenin had stated that such companies were the worst enemies of socialism. He turned to my family background, telling...
...didn't come home for dinner?'' ''We gave up having lunch and dinner to show our revolutionary zeal. Actually everyone was hungry, but nobody wanted to be the first to leave.'' ''What did you write about?'' ''Oh, slogans and denunciations against all China's enemies -- Taiwan, Japan, Britain, the U. S. and the Soviet Union.'' On the night of Aug. 18, my daughter's 23rd birthday, I invited Li Zhen, a woman professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, to dinner. Things were bad there, she told me. ''All classes have stopped. Everybody has to write Big Character Posters...
...Book of Genesis declares, ''The Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.'' The more secular deed, in modern times, was the Balfour Declaration, issued in 1917 by Britain. ''His Majesty's Government,'' it said, ''view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.'' Jews tend to quote this first part of the declaration without proceeding to the next proviso: ''. . . it being...
...British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. (More than 90 people have been questioned so far, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must...
Whoever built stonehenge, that mysterious circle of stone boulders on Britain's Salisbury Plain, may have had a lot of company. Archaeologists have uncovered a large Neolithic settlement--possibly once home to hundreds of people--that dates from about 2,600 B.C. and shows, among other things, the outlines of beds and cupboards used by the potential builders of Stonehenge. Scientists have also unearthed an ancient stone road running from the settlement, which is enclosed by the lesser known Durrington Walls henge, to the nearby River Avon. A similar road connects the river to Stonehenge, which sits about two miles...