Alive and Well in Peking

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China watchers do not even pretend to make sense of all the disappearances, reappearances and grounded planes. Chinese officials are advising Western diplomats: "Rather than speculate, wait. Before long, you will understand." The solution of the puzzle may not appear, however, until the long-postponed National People's Congress is convened—and no date for it has been announced.