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The Post lead asserts that the CIA now has convincing evidence that a leading Libyan dissident who was a U.S. resident just months away from citizenship was abducted from a Cairo human rights conference with the help of Egyptian agents and spirited off to Libya where he was murdered.
In an editorial, the Daily Telegraph of London condemned as "disgraceful" the treatment meted out by the British police to Wei Jingsheng, China's leading democratic dissident and a former nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Beijing government has stifled every remaining dissident through exile, imprisonment, or intimidation.
And so the violist gazes outward from the stage, and the audience, mulling over the biographical background with its air of '60s mayhem and long-lost Soviet dissident hipness, is bound to wonder: Is this a Promethean figure, Hendrix-like, standing before us?
The opening comment by Don DeLillo pays tribute to Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng.