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Before the visit, Vogel wrote in The Crimson (Letter to the Editors, Oct. 23) that during the Tiananmen incident Jiang was the mayor of Shanghai, where he allowed the demonstrations to take place peacefully. This is a very obvious disinformation. Jiang cleaned up Shanghai by silencing the 1989 pro-democracy movements in advance. He was then summoned to Beijing two weeks before the June 4 Massacre and 20 days after the Massacre, he assumed the post of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Vogel's letter is clearly written in the propaganda style of communist regimes. Furthermore, after...
...nation's cities are undergoing unprecedented change, but governments can manage the transformation by focusing their efforts and harnessing the public sector, New York City deputy mayor Rudy Washington said at an Institute of Politics conference Saturday...
Kathleen L. Born, Henrietta E. Davis, Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell eventually reached quorum through the redistribution of votes under the proportional system...
...major newspapers. Al Gore wouldn't campaign with her. She alienated Jews by embracing Al Sharpton, yet still lost the endorsement of two of New York's four black Congressmen. An aide to a longtime Democratic officeholder calls her campaign "a catastrophe." The 1997 race for mayor is to New York what the 1984 race for President was to the country at large. And Messinger is Walter Mondale--a thoughtful, well-meaning politician with the great misfortune of being liberalism's standard bearer as liberalism collapses...
...ever come to being censored, and I was not about to pass up my chance. I sat down and fired off an indignant letter about the meaning of Labor Day, faxed it to Chicago and was thinking how to proceed further (WRITER PLANS SING-IN; POLICE CHIEF THREATENS ARRESTS; MAYOR PLEADS FOR CALM), and it was lovely to contemplate. I mentioned the Solidarity affair to a woman friend, and she threw her arms around me and told me she admired me. This is not an everyday occurrence in my life...