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There are only two functioning churches in the whole of China, both of which reopened recently. The Protestant one, opened last Easter Sunday on a street opposite Peking's Tung Tan shopping center, is served by the Reverend Kan and his assistant, a 50-year-old deacon. A white-haired little old Chinese lady plays hymns on an upright honky-tonk piano. The hymns and the service are all in Chinese, even though the congregation is mostly European and only four members are actually Chinese...
...wary men walked up to the green Cadillac: Kenneth Kan-kit Huie, 60, self-styled "unofficial mayor of Chinatown," and Tim Lok, 35, known to federal agents as "the General" for his ramrod-stiff posture. The four men?two undercover narcotics agents, and the two "connections" whom they had been trying to nail for four months?wasted no time. The agents opened the trunk of the Cadillac and showed the Chinese the contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion...
...some cases, what aides to the Senators said differed greatly from what the Senators themselves said. A legislative aide to Sen. James B. Pearson (R-Kan.) assured students of the validity of their arguments against the Byrd Amendment. Pearson voted for it a few hours later...
...nationwide. New Orleans cannot afford to add the 300 sanitation workers and some 350 police that city officials figure it needs; authorities are afraid to raise the 6% sales tax for fear of driving more businesses to neighboring areas where taxes are lower. At the University of Kan, sas in Lawrence, students have only limited access to 80,000 recently acquired books...
...Tracy and Hepburn, Kan...