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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising -- and daunting -- competence. Few in Beijing paid much attention to the cameras mounted on lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos of Pomfret and a source sitting * in his car outside a Beijing hotel...
...puts you on hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes in a single segment of Kate & Allie...
...could probably count on one hand, or certainly two hands, the number of programs in which a Christian depicted in a modern-day setting is shown in a positive manner. They're usually depicted as con men, rip-off artists, adulterers, murderers, rapists, thieves, liars...
...wounded. One anguished doctor reported at least 500 dead. When the government radio announced that 1,000 had died, the station's personnel were quickly removed, and no further death toll was broadcast. Reports circulated that many bodies were being trucked away to be cremated, so the real count may never be known...
...obstacles to the President's hurry-up schedule are formidable. There are sharp disputes between the two sides on how to count many items of hardware to be destroyed. For example, Moscow wants to include interceptor planes that are also capable of bombing and strafing. Washington does not, nor will it ! negotiate about naval forces, a major Soviet concern. The vexing matter of verification, historically a stumbling block to Senate approval of arms treaties, has not been addressed...