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...been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young, who had come out on their own to glimpse the visiting American. It was the largest such spontaneous gathering for a foreign visitor that observers could recall...
...designs, but its leaders bridle when U.S. strategy seems to regard them primarily as a strategic foil to the Soviets. Indeed, last week Moscow announced that First Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Arkhipov will make an official trip to China in mid-May; he will be the highest-ranking Kremlin visitor since the early 1960s. Moreover, Peking is seeking to become the Middle Kingdom in modern geopolitical terms, a genuinely nonaligned state...
...audacious? by Chinese standards. Last year, according to Chinese press reports, 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai high school enjoyed subscriptions to Story, a tabloid filled with teasing tales of lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform school, told a visitor that he was committed to the institute for watching foreign movies. Later, his principal disclosed that Feng was actually found guilty of seducing twelve-year-old girls. Even premarital and unorthodox sex have come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls," says...
Later Berdabali drives his visitor to nearby Wadi-Fami, where 400 government soldiers equipped with only six tanks and 21 Toyotas defeated 3,500 Libyans and rebels last September. How did they do it? "We just charged them, that's all," says the commander. As he roared off in his Toyota, a soldier called after him, "Bonne route, Papa...
Then the Tigers made a big mistake. With a loose ball in their own end, an attempted Princeton pass became Harvard goal number three. Hurlbut got credit for the score presumably for the pressure he put on the visitor that caused the error...