From Gov. on energy mission by Gary Delsohn (Sacramento Bee), 15 November 2005
[A] tussle happened just a few minutes after Schwarzenegger marveled at the fact Special Olympics in China has reached the goal laid out by game officials the last time Schwarzenegger visited this country in 2000 — to increase the number of "intellectually disabled" Chinese athletes who participate in the competition from 50,000 to 500,000.The games were founded in 1968 by Schwarzenegger's mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. In Communist China, where Schwarzenegger has said many times the intellectually disabled were often treated with extreme cruelty, the growth of the games has been fueled by Deng Pufang, the son of former Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping.
Pufang, who was with Schwarzenegger on the stage and received yet another humanitarian award for his work on behalf of China's disabled community, has used a wheelchair since he broke his back in a fall from a window.
The Press-Telegram
( 604 Pine Ave., Long Beach, CA 90844 )
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, "California" section, page A21.
Comment "The games were founded in 1968", their "growth has been fueled by Deng Pufang" who "has used a wheelchair since he broke his back in a fall from a window".Some say, "better dead than Red", still, there may have been some relatively good fellows who had got somehow mixed-up with the Bolshevik enterprise. One might tends to feel sorry for Mr. Deng Pufang who reportedly broke his back in a fall from a window.
He was relatively lucky, anyhow. Some other notable persons, e.g. Boris Savinkov in Russia or Lawrence Duggan in America did not make it at all through such an ordeal.
What is not clear, were the games as founded, the "games for the disabled" or were they the "games for the intellectually disabled".
Or, were they originally 'games for the disabled' with an additional category of "intellectually disabled" introduced at some later date.
As soon as I have learned some more about these propositions I will promptly inform the reader. One does keep in mind to be careful in the near vicinity of windows, especially in high-rise buildings.
With this sober observation I am expecting the to-morrow.
W. Paul Tabaka, 17 November 2005
Los Angeles, California
(see me at the relatively windowless Los Angeles Public Library, nearly every day).