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Even Bush did not pretend his policy of engagement with Beijing's communist autocrats had influenced them much. His statement found improvements in China's treatment of dissidents "insufficient" and said its policies overall leave the U.S. "deeply disappointed." As if to prove Washington's point, police arrested a lone demonstrator in Tiananmen Square last week and beat foreign journalists who were watching. Also marking the anniversary, Amnesty International reported that thousands of political prisoners are still in jail in China. Says the organization: "Unfair trial, torture, long-term detention without charge or trial and summary executions continue...
...Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...
...full hour before the Kennedy Foundation fund raiser was even scheduled to begin, a lone taxicab pulled up in front of the massive John F. Kennedy Library...
CONSPIRACY BUFFS HAVE MADE MUCH OF THE FACT that the pathologists who performed the autopsy on President Kennedy never discussed their findings, except with House investigators and the Warren Commission. Last week the doctors broke their silence, reasserting publicly that they believe J.F.K. was shot by a lone gunman from the rear. Their belated postmortem report will not end the debate, but those who believe otherwise now have to contend with the detailed description of a "beveled" hole punched in Kennedy's skull that could have been made only by a bullet coming from above and behind...
...missing in action allegedly still in Vietnam, as Perot kept hinting that some broad and ill-defined conspiracy was preventing America from repatriating the MIAS. Texas Democratic Governor Mark White in 1984 recruited him to head a statewide commission on educational reform. Perot responded by taking on that ultimate Lone Star icon: the cult of Friday-night high school football. And with the cry "No pass, no play," he boldly proposed barring failing students from extracurricular activities...