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...Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand. As president, Bush often told his aides, "I know the Chinese" - and then rang up Beijing for a friendly chat. The habit drove advisers like Scowcroft crazy, not only because they couldn't keep track of what he said but also because Bush Sr. had a tendency to soft-pedal problems. As tensions rose last week, Bush aides began to hope that a family powwow was taking place. One of the many West Wing...
...Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking at me, and then he figured it out. We embraced and cried...
...Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand. As President, Bush often told his aides, "I know the Chinese"?and then rang up Beijing for a friendly chat. The habit drove advisers like Scowcroft crazy, not only because they couldn't keep track of what he said but also because Bush Sr. had a tendency to soft-pedal problems. As tensions rose last week, Bush aides began to hope that a family powwow was taking place. One of the many West Wing...
...Sunday morning, in River Lake Estates, former sheriff's deputy Patrick Cuffy stood in his front yard, talking to a friend, when a red truck drove up. So did a black Ford Excursion, then a grayish Taurus. Armed with assault-style semiautomatics, a posse of men leaped out. They rushed Cuffy and his friend, Dania Hewitt, who had a gun of his own. A loud argument was followed by seven seconds of rapid gunfire. Children playing nearby dived behind bushes as the men exchanged 59 shots. By the time it was over, one gunman was wounded and another fatally shot...
...Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking at me, and then he figured it out. We embraced and cried...