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...Tien who raced to Beijing after the huge rally on July 1 and, on his return, made the stunning announcement that Beijing wasn't fully aboard Tung's Article 23 plan. Specifically, he said that the director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, Liao Hui, felt it wasn't necessary to push the bill through last week, as Tung was demanding. Tien then said the Liberal Party's key eight votes on the bill were in danger, forcing Tung to amend the bill. When Tien quit the Cabinet, Tung realized he had, at least temporarily, lost...
...next morning McClintock and a fellow Shark, 2.08-meter Kevin Byrne out of the University of Idaho, are watching tape of that night's opponent, the Guangdong Southern Tigers. The two players are in Room 301 of a dormitory at the Hui Feng Training Center of the Shanghai Technical Sports Institute, where all the Sharks save three?the two pampered imports and one Chinese player with U.S. college and pro experience?are made to dwell, dine and train...
...prestigious newspaper Wen Hui Bao is not quite as harsh in an article headlined, WORKER HARDER, HOMEBOYS...
...Pham Ngoc Canh was a 23-year-old Vietnamese exchange student in Pyongyang. There he fell in love with Ri Yong-hui, 24, a North Korean factory worker. Their governments were communist soul mates, but relationships with foreigners were taboo in both countries. "I saw no chance," says Canh. Both were devastated when he left in 1973. A year later, Ri asked a Vietnamese student to smuggle a letter to Canh. Thus began three decades of furtive exchanges...
...Perhaps the most intelligently romantic of all wartime dramas is Ann Hui's Love in a Fallen City (1984), from the Eileen Chang novel about a lonely Shanghai widow (Cora Miao) courted by a dashing Hong Kong playboy (the young, magnetic Chow Yun-fat at his most Cary Grant-ish) in 1939. The Japanese invade Hong Kong, families and fortunes crumble, yet the glow of their hard-won rapture, of love deferred and love embraced, lights up the screen...