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...thing; finding the road toward political and economic recovery quite another. In Beijing, much of the public transportation system has been destroyed or damaged. Losses to the national economy are estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Japan, China's largest foreign-aid donor, has announced a halt in negotiations for a $120 million loan for an oil project. The U.S. and Britain have suspended all public and private arms sales to China for the foreseeable future: the P.L.A. alone needs to replace more than 300 vehicles smashed or burned in the taking of the square...
...council's activist agenda seemed to progress more slowly in the second semester, it ground to a complete halt when, three weeks before the end of the year, a seemingly innocent proposal shook the campus and all but paralyzed the council for the rest of the year...
...wife Jiang Qing used General Chen's mutiny as an excuse to unleash the Red Guards against "capitalist roaders" within the military. Commanders were dragged from their camps and publicly humiliated until Mao ordered a halt to the attacks. Belatedly, he realized that the army was the only stable institution in a nation threatened with anarchy...
...government recently pledged to stop importing luxury cars and halt the annual migration of Beijing officials to the beachside resort of Beidaihe to escape the sweltering summer. On the way to his favorite barber, Vice Premier Tian Jiyun was seen being driven in a Toyota sedan instead of his beloved Mercedes-Benz. Unfortunately for the capital's elite, such modest belt tightening is not likely to impress the student protesters...
There it went again: up, up and away. As fidgety governments struggled with little success to halt the trend, the U.S. dollar took off last week on the sharpest rally since it surged to record heights against major currencies in 1985. The frenzied rise -- which brought the greenback's gain against the West German mark and the Japanese yen to 12.5% so far this year -- raised disturbing doubts about the ability of the U.S. and its major trading partners to keep exchange rates under control. "This is a runaway freight train," said Jay Goldinger, a Los Angeles-based trader. "Anyone...