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The first alert came from Correspondent David Aikman, a former Beijing bureau chief who had returned there from his present base in Washington to help with our coverage. "The army has made a semi-serious effort to break into Tiananmen Square," he reported. "The police launched a tear-gas attack...
"It was the most unpleasant five minutes anyone can imagine, but I still feel I did the right thing," Mandery says.
Despite the chrome and modern conveniences of Sheremyetovo International Airport, the old city quickly pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings...
Other riders said they viewed the fare increasesimply as an inevitable fact of life--unpleasant,but unavoidable.
"That kind of argument has been made for decades," says Robert N. Bellah '48-'50, a sociology professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "I can't see that his recruiting some unpleasant people in Europe in 1949 is going to make much of a difference on that score...