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Similar stories of crime are coming from other cities. In Tianjin (Tientsin), the local press last month reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait in dark alleys to rob passersby. In Hangzhou (Hangchow) last month, two brothers were sentenced to death-and one of them immediately executed-for having raped 106 women over the past five years. In the southern district of Shaoguan (Shao-kuan), nine teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman...
...Canton Trade Fair, the bustling twice-annual bazaar for China's international commerce, a Chinese official approached a visiting European businessman with a delicate but unmistakable proposition: favored business dealings, in return for the gift of a particularly desirable stereo hi-fi system. In Tianjin (Tientsin), a factory received a special shipment from an overseas Chinese merchant with whom it regularly deals: a free new automobile. In Peking, officials of a trading corporation asked another foreigner for a specified gift, an expensive Nikon camera...
...epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will be sent to a special "cadre school," one of the reform camps for ideologically wayward leaders, there to spend long hours studying Mao and Lenin and laboring in the fields...
...Last year, serious earthquakes struck Guatemala, killing 22,000; the area surrounding Tientsin in China, with a toll of perhaps 665,000; Mindanao, 8,000; Turkey. 5,000: and northern Italy...
...quake measuring 7.5 struck Guatemala in February, leaving 19,000 dead; the heavily populated Tientsin area of China was ravaged by an 8.2 quake in July, with an unknown death toll also estimated in thousands...