Chinese leaders moved to contain the political aftershocks of last week's deadly earthquake, promising a big rebuilding fund, reining in the recently aggressive media and trying to keep despair from turning to anger in the disaster zone.
Still living under makeshift shelters of scrap wood and nylon tarps on Wednesday _ 10 days after the quake _ 70 farmers in the mountain town of Xinhua pressed against the locked gate of the local government compound, demanding tents. Ten soldiers in camouflage guarded the fortress-like compound.
"The government said they would deliver more tents last night. But we never got them. It rained last night and it looks like it …
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