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...Hukuang Railroad bonds affair, a legal chestnut dating back to securities issued by the imperial Chinese government in 1911. Last year a U.S. district court in Alabama issued a default judgment against China to the tune of $41 million owed on the bonds. When the U.S. granted political asylum to the young Chinese tennis star Hu Na in April, the Chinese bristled and cut back on a whole range of cultural exchange agreements...
...That we went into the Insane Asylum and extracted as many as 1,500 abscessed teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years...
...voice has provided rock 'n' roll with some of the best ballad singing of the decade just past. Now, turning to other decades long past and currently in musical disfavor among her peers, Ronstadt has found a fresh direction. What's New, released last week by Asylum, avoids all the obvious routes. Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play. It is a simple, almost reverent, rendering of nine great songs that time has not touched. At first hearing, Ronstadt...
These meetings are the source of misunderstanding, according to Pauker, Analysts assume Aquino used his asylum as a springboard for dissident activity, he said. For example, after Aquino predicted in a New York speech that the threat of guerrilla violence was severe, bombing by rebels soon broke out in Manila, and U.S. officials apparently assumed that he was connected with the incident. Pauker denies this, citing the commitment to nonviolence Aquino acquired in prison and during his years...
...Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew a full beard and traveled around the country disguised as a rabbi; in 1946 he helped fellow prisoners in Eritrea tunnel their way to freedom, fled to Ethiopia and sought asylum in France. When the British quit Palestine in 1948, following the creation of the state of Israel, Shamir returned at last to Tel Aviv. He later entered the shadowy realm of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. It was not until 1969, after he had become the manager...