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...DIED. ZHAO ZIYANG, 85, once the great hope of Chinese political reformers, who lost his post after he publicly sided with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters; in Beijing. Zhao joined the Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...
...DIED. ZHAO ZIYANG, 85, former Chinese Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. (See Appreciation...
...DETAINED. ZHAO YAN, 42, Chinese reporting assistant at the Beijing bureau of the New York Times; in Shanghai. The Times reported that Zhao's family received a notice on September 21 from the Beijing State Security Bureau stating he was "in criminal detention under suspicion of illegally providing state secrets to foreigners." New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said, "We can state categorically that Mr. Zhao has not provided any state secrets to our newspaper...
...latest urban makeover campaign: $12 million for thousands of new toilets, including a stable of self-cleaning "five-star" lavatories. Already, Chinese tourists in Athens are sniping about how little Greece has to show off for its Olympics. "Athens is in Europe, but it is quite undeveloped," sniffed Zhao Xiyan, a textile exporter who spent last week waving the Chinese flag at the gymnastics venue. "Beijing will be much better than this." Weight lifter Shi, who hopes to be back for more Olympic glory in four years' time, dutifully listed an expanded highway system and improved English from the city...
...hosting bid in 2001, further reforms stalled. An effort to induct only children with an interest in sports?instead of targeting those with promising physiques?was scrapped. "When we got the Beijing Olympics, people realized we couldn't give up a system that had produced such good results," says Zhao Yu, a sports historian whose book, Superpower Dream, critiques China's Olympic efforts. He adds, "Sports is really the only way in which socialism has been successful in China." The nation's obsession with sporty achievements dates back to Chairman Mao Zedong himself, who once demonstrated his vitality by swimming...