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Article: A Fading Scar.(Tiananmen Square massacre in China)
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- Newsweek
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- June 29, 1998
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Tiananmen: A reporter who covered the massacre discovers that her own memories of the bloodshed are more vivid than those of many Chinese.
IF ANYONE IS HAUNTED BY WHAT HAPPENED AT TIANANMEN SQUARE in 1989, it should be Wang Dan. The most famous student leader of that tragic Beijing Spring, Wang was released from prison this year and hustled off to exile in the United States. On the long Northwest Airlines flight, Wang met two women from Beijing, both employees of Western companies in China. They chatted with Wang for hours and happily posed with him for souvenir photographs. One handed him her business card as they said goodbye. "If you miss China," she said. "just ...