21.   Whatever promises of prosperity hung in the air when the bronze statue was raised and the red banners flew have evaporated in the West Siberian Plain.

22.   When she finally took the stage here recently the crowd roared and roared, waving huge red banners.

23.   Others tried to float balloons carrying slogans across the border toward Shenzhen, the neighboring Chinese city where the selection was taking place amid red Communist banners.

24.   Polling stations, including some in Buddhist pagodas, were festooned with red banners and colorful posters showing voters casting their ballots.

25.   Protesters carried a portrait of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong mounted on a small chariot and red banners.

26.   Police took away four others, among them a man who held up a red banner and another who yelled Falun Gong slogans as three plainclothes officers grabbed him.

27.   A protest rally with red banners denouncing Burns was held outside the Embassy.

28.   A red banner hung by the Maoist rebel group was booby-trapped with four small explosive packages.

29.   Among the exhibits are handmade grenades, secret messages by insurgents and a half-completed red banner with Communist slogans embroidered in the Chinese language.

30.   Beijing was hung with red banners urging people to support Jiang as the core of government.