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When 13 West Bank mayors submitted their resignations in protest, Weizman began to have second thoughts. After reading a transcript of Shaka'a's talk with Matt, he concluded that the Nablus mayor had been unfairly misquoted as defending the massacre. But at a Cabinet meeting next day, Weizman stood by his original decision and urged the ministers to approve the deportation of Shaka'a. They did so unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many...
...Peking's famed "democracy wall" last week, a group of young people were selling transcripts of the trial of China's leading dissident, Wei Jingsheng, 29. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison last month on charges of counterrevolutionary activity, and passing military data to foreigners. Suddenly, about 50 uniformed security policemen swooped down on the crowd of several hundred people gathered at the wall. Scuffling with foreign observers at the scene the police confiscated about 500 copies of the trial transcript and arrested three would-be buyers and a man who was helping sell copies...
...Forum editors' decision to distribute the text of the Wei trial spelled their downfall. After obtaining a tape recording of the 5½-hour proceedings, they first posted a transcript on democracy wall where it was read by thousands of people during the next three weeks. This limited access to the transcript was tolerated. But when it went on sale at 17? a copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster...
...spirit of the much touted restoration of the rule of law in China, which includes a guarantee of open trials where the accused's rights are to be fully respected. After the Forum editor was imprisoned, police claimed that it was a crime to sell a trial transcript without court authorization, even though Wei's trial had theoretically been open to everyone. In fact, it had been closed to his relatives, friends and to the foreign press; tickets had been distributed to factory workers who had not even asked to attend...
Some of the humor, especially early on, is quite funny. When the characters first arrive in Paris, they seem as gauche as those prototypical U.S. tourists in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. Joel (Miles Chapin), a preppie who has come to Europe to dress up his college transcript, stretches his rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim...