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Amid this purge, Jin Weiying, Deng's second wife (little is known of his first), divorced him and married his chief ideological accuser. Subjected to psychologically brutal criticism sessions, Deng recanted--but only to an extent. He refused to give up his support of Mao. "I cannot say more," he told his tormentors. "What I say is true." He said enough, however, to preserve his life. Soon he was able to rejoin...
...tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief over the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. That gathering soon snowballed into a public protest against Mao and the Gang of Four, triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz: "At dusk on Thursday, Tiananmen looked serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything...
...this country. Crown Heights did not happen over night. The black rage in response to the death of a child and the Jewish fear in response to the murder of a man were many years in the making. That fact does not in any way excuse the rioting, the brutal murder of Yankel Rosenbaum or the hateful anti-Semitism that prompted them. But it may help to explain these things. And a similar historical examination may raise the level of dialogue on these issues from narrow, fearful accusation to informed conversation...
...last asylum seekers should make it out of Hong Kong just in the nick of time. Countries that jostled one another to provide safe havens after the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen demonstrations eventually lost interest in taking in little-known dissidents who might jeopardize their delicate relations with Beijing. Now at least eight countries have grudgingly accepted the last batch. France accepted the first dissident late last year, followed by the Netherlands, which accepted two more. Sweden, Denmark and Norway are in line to take a handful, with three more on their way to Canada. But they all--particularly...
General Charles Krulak, the head of the Marine Corps, has been busy denouncing the brutal September 1991 blood-pinning ritual recently seen on television. Last week, in fact, Krulak wrote a letter to the parents of all his young soldiers declaring that "tradition in the Marine Corps has nothing whatsoever to do with hurting or humiliating each other." But Mom and Pop might not be so reassured if they knew that until two months before the incident, Krulak headed the unit in which the bloody hazing took place. He commanded the 2nd Force Service Support Group at Camp Lejeune, North...