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...crackdown has, if anything, strengthened the resolve of overseas Christian groups to keep spreading the Gospel in China. Since Lawson's trip to Luoyang in 1998, overseas evangelists' trips have increased to an average of one a week. They claim to smuggle in as many as 10,000 Bibles at a time. Many evangelists openly compete for Chinese converts, posting tallies on websites of how many souls they've saved--a somewhat questionable estimate, since most Americans don't speak the same language as the people they profess to be converting. Religious travel agencies guide devotees through tricky visa applications...
...school won an "exemplary" state rating. But just one year later, only 62% passed. What happened? In 1998, 39% of students sat out the exam after they were deemed "special ed," a designation generally confined to students with severe learning disabilities. The next year, after a district crackdown, only 24% received the exemption...
...events has also provided rich ground for a whole crop of conspiracy theories: that the bombs were planted by ex-KGB goons trying to push Putin into power, for instance. Some Muscovites and many liberal Russians are worried that the Pushka killings will become a precursor to a political crackdown. "Moscow is the capital of a country at war," warned Alexander Musykantsky, Moscow city's information minister. "People should live accordingly...
...Tiananmen Square crackdown created a boom in Ping's business. The amnesty granted by President George Bush to Chinese living in the U.S. established a huge legal population that could afford to pay to bring family and relatives over. As demand skyrocketed, larger criminal gangs learned that smuggling people was more profitable and legally less risky than smuggling drugs. Quickly the nature of the game changed. Gangs with bases in Hong Kong and China entered the field. Immigrants were recruited en masse, even if they couldn't afford a down payment. And when they couldn't keep up the payments...
...where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line" and "Gatekeeper." But they did not deter the illegal immigrants and their "coyote" smugglers for long. Instead, the crackdown has driven them into the Southwestern deserts, where much of the land adjacent to the unfenced U.S.-Mexican border is privately owned by ranchers and rural residents. It is these people, like the Hoffmans, who are on the front line of the Clinton Administration's losing battle to secure America...