Word: weis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China's most famous political prisoners has been Wei Jingsheng, who was jailed in 1979 for advocating democracy and opposing Deng Xiaoping. Last week Beijing authorities suddenly saw fit to release him, six months before his sentence was to end -- and just before the International Olympic Committee was to decide on a host city for the 2000 Olympic Games. Beijing is an anxious contender. For good measure, the government also released Wu Xuecan, an imprisoned newspaper editor who had supported the 1989 pro-democracy movement, and Zhai Weimin, a student leader...
...home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung wed Wei-wei (May Chin), a pretty artist who's behind in her rent. Wei-wei doesn't mind: "It's my fate. I always fall for handsome gay men." Then -- oops! -- the parents arrive in New York, expecting a bedroom in Wai-tung's home, a big banquet and an immediate...
Beijing -- Communist Party officials in China are launching a purge of corruption in the government and the military that could prove to be bloody. Wei Jianxing, head of the party disciplinary committee, recently told a closed-door meeting of the party's central committee that corruption has reached epidemic proportions. "In the army some division-level officers drive Mercedes-Benz 500s," says Wei. "Does this luxurious life-style correspond with our proletarian ideals when some 100 million farmers still live in poverty?" It was a rhetorical question. Wei already claims to have a list of 200 offenders...
Their royal overlords are, well, over matched. Victoria Wei's Princess of France simpers far too much for very little reason. While Wei almost redeems herself with the strength of her final speeches, she seems to have little idea of the character until that point. While pleasantly cocky, Michael McCarthy's King is simply far too vague to ever have commanded allegiance from anyone...
...took many forms, according to documents. One report refers to "eating people as an after-dinner snack . . .barbecuing people's livers . . .banqueting on human meat." The same document matter-of-factly relates specific tales of depravity. "On May 14, 1968," it says, "a group of 11, led by the Wei brothers, captured a man named Chen Guorong and killed him with a big knife before cutting out his liver. They shared the human meat with 20 participants." The same month Wu Shufang, a teacher at the Wuxuan Middle School, was beaten to death; her liver was roasted and eaten. During...