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...Shenzhen instills confidence. But Shenzhen also provides fresh ammunition for Deng's critics. They charge that Shenzhen is a brain drain on the rest of the country and aptly illustrates the "cultural pollution" they claim is emitted by the new reforms. To keep eager Chinese nonresidents out of the zone, the government has built a barbed-wire fence, complete with a patrol road and arc lamps, along Shenzhen's 53-mile border with Guangdong province...
...them was enough to startle the staid world of baseball and set Veeck's fellow owners fuming. As owner of the St. Louis Browns, Veeck (as in wreck) hired 3-ft. 7-in. Eddie Gaedel and trained him to crouch low so his strike zone was approximately 1 ½ in. Wearing uniform No. 1/8, Gaedel emerged from a giant birthday cake between games of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers on Aug. 19, 1951, and stepped up to lead off for the Browns in the second game. As expected, Gaedel walked on four pitches and retired from baseball. Next...
...battling government and rebel troops, and by 1983 it was a bombed-out ghost town. Today, as those who fled have slowly and steadily returned, it is again home to 4,000 people. Most say that regardless of who is in control, they would rather live in a war zone than in refugee-choked cities...
...southern Lebanon, local Muslim guerrillas, supported by a number of Palestinian fighters, have recently pressed their campaign against the Israeli-backed militia known as the South Lebanon Army, which protects the security zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The current drive began late last month, when guerrillas backed by Syria and Iran launched the most concerted barrage of Katyusha rockets against northern Israel since 1982. Warned Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "If normal life is not permitted to go on in northern Israel, there will be no normal life in southern Lebanon--if there will be any life...
Gorbachev's first phase would also include an agreement for "elimination" of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles from the "European zone." At first glance that looks like Reagan's zero option: no U.S. missiles in Western Europe (the U.S. is deploying 108 Pershing II ballistic and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in five countries); no Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe (Moscow has more than 250 mobile, triple-warhead SS-20s in place). Up until last week, the Soviets insisted on keeping enough SS-20s (roughly 140) to equal the number of missiles in the independent British and French nuclear...