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...FLUNG SHANXI PROVINCE, WHICH has reported more SARS cases than anywhere in mainland China except for Guangdong, Beijing's latest directives, including one stipulating that all needy SARS victims receive subsidized medical care, have yet to make a difference. In the sooty provincial capital of Taiyuan, where the average monthly income is just $60, the family of an infected student surnamed Han has had to fork over $240 in medical fees for four days' care. "The government has underinvested in health in the last 20 years, leaving it to individuals to pay the bills," says Bekedam...
...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...
...well. To combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of rain since October (compared with an average annual rainfall of 15 inches), Taiyuan Radio broadcast instructions that "manpower, material and finance be first concentrated on conservation projects that can give benefits this spring." Workers hope to sink 30,000 new wells and install nearly 50,000 pumps in other wells before June...
Once in China, White was given two suits, an overcoat, four pairs of underwear, ties, and Russian-made shoes that didn't fit. He traveled first-class to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi Province, where he spent a year studying Chinese. Then he went to Peking, where he enrolled at the Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung...
...took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...