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The Beijing Whodunit.(Periscope; Olympic Trials)(China's human-rights record)(Brief article)
Byline: Adam B. Kushner
To host the games China gave the International Olympic Committee vague vows to "improve human rights," ease pollution and allow the press "sufficient access to the Internet." But when journalists began arriving they couldn't access human-rights reports, accounts of the Tiananmen protest, or some news sites. For this the IOC blamed Beijing, Beijing blamed an IOC press attache, who accepted the blame and then recanted. The ...
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