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...organized this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February, sought refuge in the U.S. embassy; the presence of the "traitor" there provoked Chinese complaints of American meddling...
...students reflected desperation on the part of the country's gerontocracy, led by Deng Xiaoping. But though the crackdown was obviously meant to intimidate the people-power movement, it could have the opposite effect. Disaffected Chinese citizens are calling for the people "to unite in the open or underground," as one of them put it, "to seek revenge for all the deaths...
Since the government lifted a ban on its publication on Sept. 19, 1987, La Prensa has run exposes of government corruption and inefficiency, reported the existence of an underground prison for political detainees, and claimed that opponents of the regime have been executed and buried at night. To Sandinista charges that such stories lack substantiation and that she is a tool of the government's enemies, she replies, "If it weren't for La Prensa and the Chamorros, those boys who call themselves our comandantes would still be hiding in the mountains...
...Verba says he would rather find a location which could be connected to Widener through an underground tunnel, much like the one connecting the research library with Pusey and Lamont libraries...
...conditions of Follini's underground life were extreme, but people's biological clocks can also be disrupted by the demands of everyday life. Jetting across time zones, working twelve-hour days or irregular shifts and even sleeping late can disturb biological rhythms and impair efficiency and judgment. Government officials and business leaders are routinely advised to recover from jet lag before starting negotiations...