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Show _ Anniversary of Ween Passes Quietly in China Butin Hong Kong,thousands demand an apology CHICAGO TRIBUNE may have reminded them. The squareitself was closed for renovations, but on roads leading to the square, police were posted at 10-yard intervals. One man slipped through the cordon carrying an umbrella, which he unfurled to reveal prodemocracy slogans just beneath the portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung overlooking the square. Later, a second manstripped BEIJING — Only twopeople in Beijing succeeded Friday in defying China's efforts to make sure no one publicly commemorated the 10th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, crackdown against student democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. In contrast, tens of thousands of citizens gathered in a park in Hong Kongto mark the anniversary, as they do every year, by holdingcandles, singing patriotic songs and listening to speeches calling on the Chinese governmentto apologize for the massa- off a T-shirt to reveal another Tshirt underneath that was in- scribed with political slogans. Both werearrested by police. Their efforts provided just a glimmer of dissent on a day that remains a powerful symbol of China's suppression of challenges to Communist Party rule. cre. These strikingly divergent experiences underscored the continued success of the “one country two systems” arrangement, under which Hong Konghas continued IOC Member Whose Reputation was Stained by Scandal Dies BY MIKE GORRELL the last four as a vice pres- Olympics. N’Diaye was reprimandedforallowing Salt ident. Formerly, he was an THE SAI LAKE TRIBUNE An IOC member who received a serious ambassadorfor the Ivory Lake bid committee president Tom Welch to pay the airfare for the IOC member's wife to Coast government, president of the country’s national Olympic committee, coach of its national judo team and the first honorary member of the Inter- warning in Marchfor his acceptance of money and excessive gifts from the Salt Lake bid committee hasdied. The death of Louis Guirandou NDiaye, 76, of Ivory Coast, was announced Friday by the International Olympic Committee. No cause of death wascited. “The Olympic movement lost a good friend attendthe 1995session in Budapest, Hungary where Salt Lake City was selected on a firstballot vote. In addition, N’Diaye and his daughter, Ga zelle, accepted gifts valued at $972 from the national Judo Federation. But N’Diaye’s reputa- i tion was tainted by his in- N’Diaye volvementin the Olympic today,” said IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who ordered the Olympic flag lowered to half mast at IOC headquartersin Lau- bribery scandal. Six IOC members were expelled, four resigned and nine others received warnings of varying severity for having accepted more than $1 million in improper cash sanne, Switzerland. “He was a force in the world of judo and a champion of sport in [Ivory Coast]. We shall all miss him.” An IOC member since 1969, N'Diaye was on the powerful executive board from 1978-84, payments, gifts, travel allowances and free medical care from the Salt Lake bid committee in its successful pursuit of the 2002 Winter that Salt Lake bid-committee board member Bennie Smith made to the Ivory Coast Olym. pic Committee. With the death of N’Diaye, there are now 103 IOC members PLAY THE HOME;-RUN PAYOFF SCRATCH GAME AND WIN 120 MINUTES FOR $29.99 into exile. Protests were outlawed PER MONTH by a special law passed in the wakeof the massacre. Soaring economic growth has mollified the anger of many ordinary people who supported the student protests in 1989, and the democracy activists have been marginalized. But anti-government sentiments have not disappeared, they among many Chinese, except in China. The governmentstudiously ignored the anniversary, and Premier Zhu Rongji, who met with a delegation of Hong Kong 400 MINUTES FOR $49.99 PER MONTH iw CLUDES FREE LONG DISTANCE & ROAMING WHILE ONTHE sPrUNT 100%) DIGITAL NATION GRANDPRIZE: A CHICAGO TO WATCH merely take different forms. An- ger at corruption, arbitrary taxes leaders Friday, said he did not rememberwhatdateit was. and unfair laws — some of the chief complaints of the students Many ordinary Chinese also — continues to simmerjust be- said they were unawareofthe anniversary, though it was difficult neath the surface. 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