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...church last April that Bruce was introduced to Gong Zhili, an out-of-work music teacher with a reputation for mental instability who immediately took a liking to the gentle American. But that affection would eventually spin out of control. Just before a Christian youth meeting earlier this month, as worshipers were milling around the church foyer, Gong suddenly walked up to Bruce, muttered a few words, pulled a knife and stabbed him just below the heart. The 37-year-old American was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital. Valori showed up minutes later, and as a last...
Sitting in her apartment just days after her husband's murder, Valori does not cry. Her calm and even cheery demeanor puzzles her local friends, as does her desire that Gong?who will almost certainly face a swift execution by firing squad?be spared the death penalty. "In China, widows cry and scream for revenge for weeks," says one of Bruce's colleagues, who started attending church several years ago. "But Mrs. Morrison just sits and reads the Bible." Equally surprising is Valori's desire to remain in China. "I have spent all my married life here," she says...
...Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support us when we are in trouble?" For his part, the master has not expounded further on the subject...
...troubles may not be over. Anonymous flyers distributed last week in Shanghai and Wuhan mailboxes ominously spoke of the necessity of taking "extreme measures." "Tiananmen is China's national political altar," says veteran human-rights watcher Robin Munro. "Blood spilled there consecrates a cause." For the five Falun Gong extremists, perhaps only fire could purify the nation's spiritual center...
Beijing Police continued to maintain some of the tightest security measures seen in the Chinese capital for years after five alleged members of the outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square early last week. In the dramatic protest, one woman died and four other people were severely burned. The Chinese stance on issues such as Falun Gong, which was outlawed by the government in 1999, has drawn objections from both human rights groups and other nations?in a conversation between new U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and outgoing Chinese ambassador...