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...unsettle those hearts. Last May, after several Chinese officials had publicly declared that China would not station soldiers on Hong Kong soil, Deng suddenly summoned the Hong Kong press. After denouncing the claims of two of his associates as "hogwash," he instructed the astonished journalists, "You go and publish this bit of news. Troops will be stationed in Hong Kong. It is part of Chinese territory. Why shouldn't we station troops there?" Not long afterward, when three Chinese representatives of Hong Kong's executive and legislative councils visited him, they received a decidedly cold welcome. No sooner...
...true, retorted Miller in a 115-page rebuttal. He dismissed the attacks as the "predictable venting of final rage by a chronic complainer." The winner in the slugfest: Who knows? Who cares? The loser: U.S. taxpayers, who paid an estimated $80,000 to prepare and publish the competing critiques...
...order to protect the process of learning and discovery, Universities must maintain a reasonable autonomy in the conduct of their internal affairs. They must persuade the outside would to refrain form exerting pressure that would limit the freedom of their members to speak and publish as they choose. They must also preserve the freedom to select the best political activities and to set their own policies without external control save by the government in behalf of established public ends...
...contemporary setting and realistic style of The Diary of a Good Neighbor-the memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected it without recognizing Lessing's touch. A third, remarking that the style bore a resemblance to Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing...
...piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another of the decision to publish Sakharov's article: "It's designed to show the world, and in particular his fellow scientists in the West, that he is allowed to work...