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...Guards harassed an Italian trade official at a street "trial" after the port of Genoa had refused to allow a Chi nese freighter to unload until it lowered political banners extolling Mao. - Thousands of Maoists brawled among themselves, ignoring the theme of the rally for which they had gathered-"to end demonstrations and clashes...
...satellite-borne cameras. Their subject is infinitely elusive, yet hardly esoteric. It is Red China. Thanks to its China watchers, and the relatively new art of stethoscoping the Red Dragon, the U.S. has a clear lead over other nations in piercing the hermetic barriers that seal the Chi nese mainland from the outside world...
Steel? Guess again. As far as Hong Kong cares, it is Gibson - which is short for the Hupp Corp.'s Gibson Refrigera tor Division of Greenville, Mich. This month Gibson has been discombobulating the city like nothing since the Japa nese invasion...
Tiepolo was early marked for greatness. At 14, he was sent to study in the studio of the prolific Venetian genre painter Gregorio Lazzarini, but soon broke away to study on his own the works of the Renaissance's Paolo Vero nese. By the time he was 21, he had become a full-fledged member of the local painters' fraternity, by 23 he had married Cecilia Guardi, sister of the painting Guardis, and by 26 held the highly important post of "curator" of the Doge's art treasures. From then on, his reputation spread from northern Italy...
Unfriendly to Foreigners. Nor has Viet Nam historically taken kindly to nation builders, most of whom were colonialists at heart. For more than a thousand years the Vietnamese stub bornly resisted assimilation into a Chi nese kingdom, finally drove out the hated invaders from the north...