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...after Koerner arrived, the race started. And five minutes after the race started, Koerner was forced to drop out. Already suffering from the virus which has affected a large portion of the team, Koerner saw his condition made worse by a very past pace coupled with his lack of warm-up time...
...repression of the Mayday demonstrations was not fascism. The repression came instead from a liberal democracy, caught deep in its own contradictions, trying to maintain order. And, obviously, the traffic blocking action was not revolution. For both sides it was a warm-up, a partial unveiling of tactics with the aim of winning a broad base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops...
...repression of the Mayday demonstrations was not fascism. The repression came instead from a liberal democracy, caught deep in its own contradictions, trying to maintain order. And, obviously, the traffic blocking action was not revolution. For both sides it was a warm-up, a partial unveiling of tactics with the aim of winning a broad base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops...
...turned out, the table tennis match was not the main event at all, but only the warm-up for the real purpose of the visit: the meeting with Chou Enlai next day in the huge, red-carpeted reception room of the Great Hall of the People. The day started out with a visit to the Summer Palace, the 19th century pleasure pavilion of the Manchu Emperors, and a tour of the Great Hall itself, which, one of the group remarked, resembles New York's Metropolitan Museum...
...certain kind of feel," Parker said before leaving yesterday. "And what we're looking for, in this new lineup, is that improved feel. As far as the campaign is concerned, I'm just expecting a tough race and I don't look at it as any kind of warm-up for Penn. We're just anxious...