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	Getting A Message To The Free Press

Carl Lavin

3-27-2008 9:36 AM

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When foreign reporters were finally allowed into Tibet, under tightly controlled conditions, a group of monks realized that this was a rare opportunity to get their message to the rest of the world. China is a country that has put a man in jail for collecting signatures on a petition. What will they do to these young monks?

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