U.S. secretary of state says China should be 'tolerant'
As China blocked planned protests by the Falun Gong spiritual movement, Secretary of State Colin Powell told China's ambassador Wednesday that his government should show tolerance and respect for the rule of law, the State Deparrtment said.
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"The power of faith like that can make multitudes of the old and the weak and the young and the frail to enter without hesitation or complaint." -- wrote American author Mark Twain, who visited the Kumbh Mela festival in India during the 1890s