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...most famous man in China this summer seems to be Xiao Bing, the "rumormonger" who was sentenced to ten years in prison for "exaggerating" the Tiananmen death toll in an interview with ABC News (he said 20,000 had died). Absolutely everyone knows the tale of Xiao. "Xiao Bing makes a point about the future," says an economics professor in Chengdu. "The people in Beijing were there -- and so may be very willing to take to the streets again. But we elsewhere are more cautious. It's not that the propaganda campaign is working. Most of us know full well...
Bacque's recounting of those policy decisions may hold up to historical scrutiny better than his statistics. His evidence on the death toll in American camps comes from fragmentary, often contradictory Army records. Says historian Arthur L. Smith of California State University, Los Angeles, who has written about German soldiers in the postwar years: "How do you get rid of a million bodies?" Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose also disagrees with Bacque on several key points. Nevertheless, he says, "we as Americans can't duck the fact that terrible things happened. And they happened...
...port of Deal in southeastern England housed young recruits, some only 16 years old, who were training for the famed Royal Marines marching band. Last week their music was silenced in a deafening explosion that leveled one of the barracks and rattled houses within a two- mile radius. The toll: ten dead, 22 injured. British Defense Secretary Tom King called the blast an "appalling outrage against young army bandsmen who work for charity and who have given great enjoyment to millions across the country...
Cash seizures from the drug trade totaled more than $100 million last year in Los Angeles, topping the Miami toll for the first time. The city's Federal Reserve surplus--one way of measuring illegal money laundering--has jumped by more than 2,000 percent in five years, to $3.8 billion last year...
...Gitell points out, the most tragic consequence of the drug trade is the toll it takes on innocent victims like Tiffany Moore, killed in crossfire during a shootout between rival drug gangs. More generally, the violence which accompanies drug trafficking victimizes entire neighborhoods, particularly in the African-American community, as the constant danger of crime drives private businesses to the suburbs and further isolates minorities in joblessness and poverty...