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...country that doesn't allow public debate, a single dissenting voice can be enormously threatening. In their efforts to silence him, Jiang's captors have not mistreated him physically, but it has been a harrowing experience psychologically. Initially, Jiang and his wife were taken to an unknown location in an armored truck and made to walk through what one source describes as "a human corridor" of a hundred guards before being confined to separate rooms. Hua was given copies of China's constitution and the regulations of the P.L.A. and was supervised at all times by at least two people...
...know now' and 'That's all right,' poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success ... Charles lives in a world of sounds alone, and even his best songs do not completely tell what goes on there. Southern spiritualists have claimed to hear him speaking the 'unknown tongue,' and serious jazz critics go along with calling him 'The Genius.' But something else remains-the catch in the way he sings 'That's all right'-and it suggests that something is wrong. How can it be all right, when it stirs the listener so sadly...
...Glickman acknowledged the element of the unknown in his newest career...
Reports of every unidentified aircraft spotted over North America flash through the Air Defense network to the blockhouse in Colorado Springs, General Chidlaw's command post. On the great Plexiglas map, from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere ... In case of a suspected attack, the hot lines would carry a call which is no drill: Air Defense Readiness. At the signal, all military aircraft are to be armed, fueled and manned, all defense forces called to duty, the White House...
...even to the Iraqi politicians who worked with Blackwill in choosing members of the new government, he remains an unknown commodity. "He played a major role in the process," says a senior aide on the disbanded Iraqi Governing Council. "But he did it quietly, subtly. You won't find any fingerprints...