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...student said that a similar mix of ideals and real considerations had caused the protests. "The students hate the government," he said. "They want to live in a democracy. After ten years, they can't see any change in China...
There has been a patriotic fervor to the demonstrations in Beijing. The protesters sang the national anthem and saluted the country's flag. It is all but impossible to imagine something similar happening if Latvians took over the main square in Riga or Ukrainians mobbed downtown Kiev. They would be singing songs and waving flags that would symbolize their dreams of independence and their resentment of Russian domination. Gorbachev's picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that...
...officials hope any final agreement reached with Japan will serve as a model for similar deals with Taiwan and South Korea. But they may resist U.S. pressure. Says T.F. Chen, a Taiwanese marine fisheries official: "We could never allow foreign representatives to board and inspect ((our boats)). We can handle the enforcement ourselves...
Baker, who believed he was doing just fine at the Sun, was less sure. The paper nurtured and rewarded his talents; its editor was like a father. James Reston, then the Times's Washington bureau chief, would eventually assume a similar role as Baker's boss. But before the relationship could be established, home-office politics required that Baker pay dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing...
...fill the gap, CBS tried to recapture some of the drama of the preceding week. When China Central Television announced that it would be shutting off its satellite-transmission facility on Wednesday, CBS booked the last block of , time, hoping to recreate a scene similar to the one a few days earlier, when viewers saw Chinese officials ordering Rather off the air. Sure enough, that night's CBS EVENING NEWS showed Rather at his anchor desk in New York City, interviewing Beijing correspondent John Sheahan. When Sheahan's picture suddenly disappeared from the screen, Rather abruptly...