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...lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos of Pomfret and a source sitting * in his car outside a Beijing hotel; apparently the pictures were taken from a rooftop across the street...
...real danger, however, was that foreign press crews might continue to disseminate truthful information, blackening the Chinese government's careful whitewash. At midweek officials charged two American correspondents, Alan Pessin of the Voice of America and John Pomfret of the Associated Press, with violating martial-law restrictions, and gave them 72 hours to leave China...
...small village in east Holland, he went to Lebanon as a missionary in 1958; there he became an expert in Armenian (he is fluent in seven other languages). Kolvenbach later earned a doctorate in Armenian in Paris, spent a year of spiritual study at a Jesuit center in Pomfret, Conn., then returned to Beirut as a professor at St. Joseph's University. He later headed the Jesuits' Middle East province (Lebanon, Syria and Egypt). "Father Kolvenbach is a classic Jesuit," says an official in Rome who knows him well, "studious, reserved yet militant, with that touch...
...Pomfret, Conn...
...premium price set off speculation that the deal was as much a political as a financial bailout for Lance. Smith, a Republican, and his financial adviser, former Business Executive Henry Woodbridge of Pomfret, Conn., insisted that they conceived their plan to buy into a bank before they learned of Lance's problems. But Smith told TIME he had another purpose as well: "I wanted to contribute my little part to knocking out the hassle within the Government. Bert hadn't done anything wrong...