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...worked his way up to keep his own policy views to himself; his success in ascending party ranks was due more to his efficiency than to his leadership. Before being transferred to Beijing in 1982, he toiled for 14 years as a low-level apparatchik in impoverished Gansu province in western China. His are the political instincts of a prairie dog in falcon country; he twice survived purges by keeping his head down while those of his immediate supervisors were rolling. During the Tiananmen uprising in 1989, Wen was firmly in the camp of reformists and protodemocrats as an aide...
...SIGNED. PAUL GASCOIGNE, 35, former star English footballer, a one-year contract as player?coach for the Chinese second-division team Gansu Tianma (Heavenly Horses). Better known as Gazza (Jia Jia in Chinese), Gascoigne has been plagued by weight and drinking problems in recent years and failed to sign with an English club this season. He will move to his new club's home, Lanzhou, near the Gobi Desert, this month. "It's a great challenge," he said...
...SENTENCED. LI DAWEI, 40, a former policeman in China's northwestern Gansu province; to 11 years in prison for using the Internet to access "antirevolutionary" material; in Tianshui. Arrested in April and currently appealing in the provincial supreme court, Li was accused of downloading and printing some 500 "reactionary" documents, the first person in the country convicted on such charges...
...another chaotic and corrupt developing country. Across northern China, for example, local officials are ignoring a more forgiving tax code championed by Beijing and instead are forcing peasants to pay exorbitant taxes on land that ceased to be fertile years ago. In other places such as Henan, Fujian and Gansu provinces, local bosses have taken central government funds for combating drugs, human smuggling and HIV, and used them to build palatial homes...
...fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation...