China Present, China Future (review of Tiananmen Diary, by Harrison Salisbury)

Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June, by Harrison Salisbury (Little, Brown, 176 pp., $18.95)

About midnight last June 3, not far from Tiananmen Square, a sweating young man in a blue tank top was tugging at a flagstone on Beijing’s principal boulevard. I watched him pry it loose and hurl it with a curse in the direction of an ambulance which had just arrived at the rear of an angry crowd. “It’s not really an ambulance,” a woman cried out to me. “In it are plainclothes soldiers trying to get beyond the crowd into Tiananmen.”

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Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June, by Harrison Salisbury (Little, Brown, 176 pp., $18.95)

About midnight last June 3, not far from Tiananmen Square, a sweating young man in a blue tank top was tugging at a flagstone on Beijing’s principal boulevard. I watched him pry it loose and hurl it with a curse in the direction of an ambulance which had just arrived at the rear of an angry crowd. “It’s not really an ambulance,” a woman cried out to me. “In it are plainclothes soldiers trying to get beyond the crowd into Tiananmen.”