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...defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however, Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading, Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities fraud and tax violations...
...Yang could eventually prove liabilities to Deng, and he might have to jettison them. An alternative could be provided by Qiao Shi, an unfamiliar Politburo member, who emerged as a rising star after a telegram from the Supreme Court congratulated him for his support of the military crackdown...
...Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority of people -- even in the once radical Shanghai -- have been frightened into nervous silence...
...York City about 30 people have engaged in a symbolic hunger strike across the street from the United Nations. They were demanding U.N. condemnation of the crackdown in Beijing and the dispatch of medical workers and human-rights observers to China. Though many of the students in the U.S. are children of Communist Party members, and some are members themselves, the army's brutality has soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University...
...once sidelined for resisting his economic reforms. Analysts in Beijing feared that Deng had cast his lot with this ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good deal of irony in the awkward situation. "The 80-year-olds," commented one wag, "are calling meetings of 70-year-olds to decide which 60-year-olds should retire...