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China, amid signs of a new cultural chill, canceled a scheduled new year’s day television showing of last July’s “Live Aid” concert, which raised $50 million for African famine relief. An official of China Central Television said there were “all sorts of reasons” but offered no details for the cancellation of a showing of a 50-minute tape of the concert. It was replaced by a program lauding industrial modernization.
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