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Many of the crimes charged to Communist cadres show how easily officials have been able to use their power not only to violate the law but also to avoid punishment. For example, as head of the planning section of a factory in the northeast city of Shenyang, Guan Qingchong, the gold thief mentioned in the People's Daily, was able some 19 years ago to make off with 806 oz. of industrial gold. Ever since then, he had got steady promotions, while two provincial leaders had been hounded to suicide after being falsely accused of the crime. Guan...
...agent and the General then went back toward Gold Street in a taxi, followed in a gray Dodge station wagon by a third Chinese, Guan Chow-tok, bringing the heroin. But Guan, owner of the sportswear shop, doubled back and dropped the heroin in a vacant lot, arriving emptyhanded. He seemed worried about police. The agent and Guan argued in the street in front of Beekman Hospital for several minutes, and finally the hesitant Chinese agreed to make the deal. The four men piled into the green Cadillac and followed the gray Dodge station wagon to a dark, deserted street...
...night fairly exploded with armed men and flashing lights. Two unmarked cars squealed to a stop at opposite ends of the street, blocking the escape routes. Agents waving pistols and shotguns sprinted out of the shadows from all directions. Huie, the General and a fourth Chinese accomplice surrendered immediately. Guan jumped into his gray Dodge?and found himself staring into the muzzle of a .45 automatic in the hands of an agent who was leaning through an open window...
...before fading back into the jungle with the freed prisoners, of whom 190 were later recaptured. While launching their attacks at main targets, the Communists did not neglect their campaign of terror and harassment against South Vietnamese villages and hamlets. A Viet Cong force overran the coastal hamlet of Guan Co, also near Danang, just before dawn, inflicted heavy casualties on the little Vietnamese milita post guarding the town and burned down 44 dwellings...
...credited with the All-America record for having seen 572 species of birds in a single year, finds Texas bird life more varied than any other state's. It includes such bait for bird watchers as the caracara (an oddball falcon that eats carrion), the chachalaca (only guan in North America), the roadrunner (a giant, snake-killing cuckoo) and the jagana (a long-toed "lily trotter"). Altogether, there are 487 different "basic species" which occur regularly, plus 55 accidentals (recorded fewer than five times), for a grand total of 542 species. This leaves California, notes Birder Peterson, "a poor...