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BEIJING (AP) Each afternoon, just after the midday rest break, we’d gather in the music room of Fangcaodi Elementary School. The teacher would hand out a song sheet, mimeographed on pulp paper. We’d stand, ramrod straight, and sing Chinese songs with stirring tunes and no other way to put it lyrics of Communist propaganda.
For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon s trip to China changed almost everything. In 1979, Ted Anthony was part of the earliest wave of American families to come to Beijing