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...eyes and said, "I'm an old man. When I die, all this will die with me. This way, maybe someone will remember. What I'm recounting is the very history they'd like to bury as deep in the ground as they can. But you can't hide the truth, it will find...
Beijing is increasingly a city of false facades. Each day picturesque walls made of stucco and tile are erected around deteriorating residential neighborhoods to hide them from visitors who will attend the 1990 Asian Games in the Chinese capital this September. No less deceptive is the charade that is performed each night at major intersections throughout the city. Disguised as policemen, combat-ready army officers man security checkpoints that were allegedly dismantled when martial law was lifted in January. Says a dissident intellectual: "Stability is only an illusion...
...says Kessler. "I don't want you to die either." He administers Narcan, a heroin antidote. An hour later, the patient regains his strength and wants to leave before the police come. He gets angry when a nurse tells him his clothes were cut to pieces. She tries to hide her annoyance. "You understand, sir, that our first priority was saving your life...
...live comfortably, most Koreans use Japanese aliases and hide their origins. But many are beginning to resent such subterfuges. "We're just like Japanese, so how are we supposed to change?" asks Ha Jung Nam, deputy director of a Korean residents association in Japan. President Roh Tae Woo's scheduled visit to Japan this week ignited simmering anger in Seoul against the treatment of Korean nationals, and he was under pressure to cancel the trip unless the long-standing grievances were resolved...
Some delinquent borrowers have tried to seek refuge behind Texas' homestead law, which shelters a debtor's home from hungry creditors. But Pankau nailed one scamp after he used proceeds from a commercial loan to hide $1 million in a River Oaks mansion. "If it's out there, we're going to find it," he insists. "The money all went into somebody's hands. It didn't go up in smoke...