Quake Spares Beijing, but Many Outraged as Torch Relay Continues

Quake Spares Beijing, but Many Outraged as Torch Relay Continues By The New York Times Juliet Macur and Jeff Z. Klein compiled this report. An unidentified Chinese runner with the Olympic flame during the torch relay in Longyang, in southeast China’s Fujian province on Tuesday. The torch relay went on Tuesday unaffected by reports of the rising death toll to the west in Sichuan province throughout the day, prompting calls for a moratorium on the relay. But the Beijing organizing committee an

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