CHINA'S LOOMING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
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CHINA'S LOOMING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Moderate earthquake shook Tangshan early yesterday, striking fear into millions of Chinese. In 1976, a much stronger tremor in the same city killed 240,000 - and heralded the death of Mao Zedong. Superstition now surrounds years in which the lunar calendar counts the eighth month twice. The so-called double-August occurred in 1976 and began on August 26 this year. It lasts until October 23.
Yesterday's quake, registering 5.0 on the Richter scale and felt 160 kilometres away in Beijing, fulfils the premonition that natural disasters and cataclysmic political events occur in leap-August. Soothsayers suggest that just as the death of Mao followed shortly after the 1976 quake, the death of ailing patriarch Deng Xiaoping might be foretold.
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Moderate earthquake shook Tangshan early yesterday, striking fear into millions of Chinese. In 1976, a much stronger tremor in the same city killed 240,000 - and heralded the death of Mao Zedong. Superstition now surrounds years in which the lunar calendar counts the eighth month twice. The so-called double-August occurred in 1976 and began on August 26 this year. It lasts until October 23.
Yesterday's quake, registering 5.0 on the Richter scale and felt 160 kilometres away in Beijing, fulfils the premonition that natural disasters and cataclysmic political events occur in leap-August. Soothsayers suggest that just as the death of Mao followed shortly after the 1976 quake, the death of ailing patriarch Deng Xiaoping might be foretold.
Form ---- http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/comp/frame25T.htm
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