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...four competitors at a provincial contest. "A sudden hail of deafening screams and whistles broke out," reported the biweekly Shenzhen Youth Herald. "The four girls trembled at the center of the stage and slowly lowered their heads." When the hall finally quieted and the athletes raised their heads to strike their poses, the 500 spectators went wild...
...being plagued by unemployment, labor strife and racism, while news of the East bloc consists largely of stories about factory openings and trade agreements with Moscow. In one issue last week, Pravda, which usually devotes two of its six daily pages to foreign news, carried items about a student strike in France, a protest in India over the handling of the Bhopal disaster, a "crisis in the rightist camp" in Spain and a controversy about a book on the British intelligence services...
...conceded that the strike alone is unlikely to bring down the administration, predicting a power struggle which could last months...
...opposition says that the general strike heralds a new phase in the confrontation, and that further unspecified measures will be unveiled in the coming days...
...planned strike comes just two days ahead of a key international fundraising conference in Paris in which the Lebanese government hopes to raise billions of dollars to help revive the debt-laden economy and push through a program of economic reforms. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has urged all Lebanese to go to work Tuesday as normal, and accused the opposition of attempting to sabotage the donor conference, known as Paris...