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Zhou made his way to the coastal city of Yantai, where he stayed at a Stone guesthouse for three weeks before police caught him. He was detained in a hostel in the Beijing area, where, except for a three-day period of solitary confinement, he was treated relatively well. Zhou was never formally charged or tried. In December he was told he would be released shortly, but it was another five months before he, along with 210 others, gained his freedom...
Under fire from child-welfare groups, the Labor Department last week conducted Operation Child Watch, a nationwide three-day sweep of 3,400 garment shops, restaurants, supermarkets and other businesses suspected of abusing young workers. In all, the operation uncovered 7,000 minors who were illegally employed, which could result in more than $1.8 million in civil fines. "The cop is on the beat," declared Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "Violations, whether motivated by greed or by ignorance, will not be tolerated...
...major goal of the conference is to teach high school students from Europe and Africa about the American governmental system by organizing a three-day simulation of the U.S. Congress, National Security Council (NSC) and press corps, according to organizers...
...dreaded firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties came with astonishing speed. Like the abrupt fall of the Berlin Wall thousands of miles away, the collapse suddenly confirmed what everyone in the financial world could already feel in the wind: a new era had arrived. After a desperate three-day search for cash in which it was spurned by its bankers, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group filed bankruptcy papers an hour before midnight last Tuesday...
...first signal that Mikhail Gorbachev's three-day ordeal was over came shortly before 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when the television lights in the auditorium of the Foreign Ministry suddenly flashed on. For three hours the Moscow press corps had been waiting impatiently for a delegation of party officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program...