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Furious, Khrushchev decided to expel Malik from the party and dismiss him from his post. During an audience with the Premier, Malik apparently fell to his knees and wept as he begged forgiveness. By this time Khrushchev's U-2 scheme had come to fruition, and he contented himself with a humiliating punishment for Malik: ordering him to make a public confession at a party meeting of the entire Foreign Ministry...
...made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must be free" and pledged that writers would never again become victims of political persecution. According to the People's Daily, some of the delegates wept openly with joy. Though Hu did not define what "freedom of creation" meant, many felt reassured by his words. Said the editor of a literary magazine: "There is a feeling that we can never go back to something like the Cultural Revolution...
...need to know exactly how many died, how many were hospitalized; reports supersede reports. When the count is finally declared accurate, it is as if one were mourning a quantity rather than people, since the counting exercise is a way of establishing objective significance in the world. Still, we wept at the pictures...
Just as we wept or shook our heads sorrowfully for the citizens of Mexico City who were caught in the gas explosion and fire several weeks ago. Just as we have been weeping for the starving Ethiopians for several weeks in a row. There we could provide more than tears. There was money to send; one could do that...
Penn fans tore down the goal posts, and Quaker players wept and hugged each other...