Volume 44, Number 10 · June 12, 1997
Peking's Choice
By Jonathan Mirsky
The recent sentence to six years in prison of one of Tibet's supreme monks shows Peking's determination to dominate all events in the region and bring to an end a period of intense confusion within the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief time the regime apparently attempted a reconciliation with the Dalai Lama; but that possibility now seems out of the question.
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