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...devastated her family in Wild Swans. (Her parents, dedicated Communists, were denounced as class traitors during Mao's Cultural Revolution; her father was tortured, driven insane and worked to death in a labor camp.) Chang's obsession is evident. About one-sixth of the 800-page Mao: The Unknown Story cites the diaries, intelligence reports, diplomatic messages and other documents she and Halliday unearthed in China, Russia and elsewhere, plus the 150 or so former Mao minions, victims and acquaintances they interviewed, including a dozen heads of state and government as well as the nurse who heard the Great Helmsman...
...Event of an Emergency In "How To Get Out Alive," you described new research about how people react during emergency evacuations [May 16]. As a world traveler, I always try to figure out, in an unknown environment, how to save my skin in case of a crisis. Consider, for example, how many public buildings have their emergency exits locked with chains. I also have an idea for safer airline travel. At present, airlines check to see whether the passengers sitting in the exit rows understand that they may have to open the door and help other passengers if there...
...underfunded and mismanaged efforts. Eric J. Morrow North Cedar City, Utah, U.S. In the Event of an Emergency In "How To Get Out Alive," you described new research about how people react during emergency evacuations [May 16]. As a world traveler, I always try to figure out, in an unknown environment, how to save my skin in case of a crisis. The risk is always just around the corner if one considers, for example, how many public buildings have their emergency exits locked with chains. I also have an idea for safer airline travel. At present, airlines check...
...Qaeda raises funds and recruits members to how it plans attacks and builds explosives. Detainees, officials say, have helped identify new prisoners, from Osama bin Laden's bodyguards to rank-and-file militia fighters; late last year, according to officials, a few detainees helped uncover a previously unknown al-Qaeda cell in another country. Still, earlier this year the civilian head of intelligence at Guantánamo admitted in newspaper interviews that the majority of detainees were no longer of much intelligence value and were not even being regularly interrogated...
...violated a university policy banning sectarian gatherings on campus. The students refused the request, and al-Rubaiyi scuffled with the bodyguard of the dean of the pharmacy college, Mustafa al-Hiti, before heading home. He never made it. A few hours later, he was shot and killed by unknown assailants on a street near his house...