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...pain and their human suffering concerning their beloved ones, and I appreciate their feelings. I wish I had the realistic means to end this human tragedy. I am working on educating the whole nation against this method, and I wish that I could influence the people involved. I can confirm that I have done a great deal of work in this direction, but I have come across many closed paths...
...fish in aquariums in order to absorb "bad rays," or those who believe their country's former greatness was attributable to a national qi (vital energy) that even now is moving inexorably from the West to Japan on its way back to China, a shift that will once again confirm the Middle Kingdom as the center of the world. All these people know that the man is right because they know that the logic behind marrying dead people, to ensure them a peaceful afterlife, is dead wrong. The real if equally fanciful reason is that the unmarried dead are feared...
...detonator had been placed between powder bags and that someone had rammed the bags more tightly than normal. Hartwig was, the Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another sailor...
...Tiananmen Square. Youth League officials in Beijing claimed not to know anything about the tract's origins, but they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution." If the booklet is genuine, he added, "it tends to confirm the view that a lot of attacks that appear to be aimed at ((ousted Communist Party leader)) Zhao Ziyang are in fact directed against Deng himself...
...that they had not been moved until a week after the accident, after even the livestock had been led to safety. Now, three years later, the supreme soviet of the Byelorussian Republic has suggested that an additional 106,000 people be relocated. If approved by Moscow, this evacuation would confirm suspicions that Soviet officials downplayed the severity of the mishap and grossly underestimated the risk it posed to human life...