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...Wiesel's moral authority that brought together Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela; Jimmy Carter and Francois Mitterrand; the authors Gunter Grass and Nadine Gordimer; Chai Ling and Li Lu, leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
...almost a year, the status of Fang Lizhi has been the No. 1 impediment to improvement in U.S.-China relations. Last week the two sides settled on a deal that allowed the dissident astrophysicist and his wife Li Shuxian to leave the U.S. embassy in Beijing, where they had been trapped since the June 1989 crackdown. They headed for Cambridge, England...
...sitnov, First Hubby may be about three bricks shy of a load, which is the title of one of Roy Blount Jr.'s amiable volumes of uptown down-home humor. Still, Blount is good company whatever he's writing, even if his puns ("Li Pung lizards!" as a comment on Clementine's China policy) hit the wall and dribble down like tossed eggs. And even if some of the jokes are merely gags (he wants to make love, she has a headache, he's hurt, and she says no, a political headache: she has to fire the Defense Secretary). That...
...Give the people a greater voice. Liberal reformists contend that stability is built on economic prosperity and greater citizen participation. "How can you do your work if people run away as soon as they see you?" asked Li Ruihuan, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, in an interview with the People's Daily. "We should talk about something that the people are interested in and that can help them do away with their worries." None of the would-be successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang...
...survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy is "happy and laughing...