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home than they are here. Under the basic agreement between the's
Republic of China and Hong Kong, it will be the Hong Kong police who keep
order here, and so at least everybody I have talked to, in all walks of
life, takes it the army is a show of sovereignty by the Chinese government,
an attempt to say we've arrived and this is the way it is'.
Now, as to demonstrations tomorrow night, yes, there are going to be
some, of course. Some of the most ardent democrats have said they will
demonstrate against the dissolution of the elected legislature here and
the Chinese coming. But again, I think it's a pragmatic demonstration
tomorrow, wanting to use the world's spotlight, but not wanting to take
undue advantage of it.
MR. DONALDSON: Peter, sum up in just two or three sentences what this
transfer mea'ns to the United States.
MR. JENNINGS: Well, I think for us it" s the litmus test of the
U.S.-Chinese relationship in Asia. It's the most important reiationship we
have in Asia, if not,the most important one in the world at the moment.
And I think everybody will look to what happens here to see whether or not
the Chinese actually keep an agreement. And if something can be
accomplished here, then who knows what's about Taiwan? That's
what the Chinese government certainly has in mind. And who knows what can
happen about Korea?
And as the U.S.-Chinese relationship gets ever more important, this is
a place to see if they keep their word.
MR. DONALDSON: Thank you very much, 'Peter. We'll be seeing you soon.
Peter anchors our coverage tomorrow, with a special edition of "Good
Morning America," and continuing at 11:00 a.m. with the live ceremonies.
Well, what' a $cene it was last night in Las Vegqs. It wasn't so much a
heavyweight championship fight as it was a championship bite. In the third
round, challenger Mike Tyson bit off a portion of champion Evander
Holyfield's ear. See that. Look at that. The referee called a temporary
halt and warned Tyson about his conduct. The fight resumed, and Tyson took
another bite at Holyfield's ear. And the referee stopped the fight and
awarded the decision to Holyfield. A melee in the ring, and guests
stampeded out of the hotel.
MIKE T.YSON: (From videotape.) He kept going down and coming up, and he
charged into me.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: (From videotape.) Why do you have to bite somebody?
If you feel that you could whoop me, why you can't whoop me with the
gloves on?
MR. DONALDSON: Well, that's a good question. Joining us live now from
Las Vegas is ABC's Armen Keteyian.
Armen, why did he do it?
ARMEN KETEYIAN (ABC News): Well, I think Tyson said, Sam, it was in
retaliation. He said in the second round of the fight, Holyfield had
head-butted him much like he did in the first last November. He
sliced open Tyson'S right eye, And Tyson was outraged and irate that Mills
Lane, the referee, didn't do anything about it, so he deciqed to take
matters into his own hands - or actually, into his own mouth.
MR. DONALDSON: Well, Armen, right after that melee that we saw erupt in
the ring, everyone erupted from the hotel, there was a great, huge
commotion. All h-e-you-know-what broke out. Tell us about that. You were
there.
MR. KETEYIAN: There was some pretty 'serious stuff, Sam. The chaos in
the ring, was masked by the chaos and pandemonium and panic in the casino.
There were some widespread reports that both the local police and the
highway patrol, that there were gunfire -- gunshots inside the casino
shortly after the fight. The MGM Grand says no, no" it was champagne
bottles dropping or beer bottles. What's not in is that there were
several fights inside the casino. That triggered a stampede out the front
door, thousands of people trying ,to flee the casino at one time, 24 people
injured, several of them seriously, 1 person reportedly with a heart
attack. Another woman who we talked to said she was tramp.led on the way
out, flipped over a guardrail. Another woman who we spoke to said she had
been ,hit face down into\the concrete.
So they closed the casino for two hours. There were SWAT teams, or not
SWAT teams, but local police and paramedics allover the place. And the
casino at this point is just starting to get back to normal,
MR. DONALDSON: Wow. Talk about your Las Vegas spectaculars. Very
quickly now, what happens to Mike Tyson now?
MR. KETEYIAN: Well, what happens short-term is on Tuesday, the Nevada
~thletic Commission is going to hold a hearing, an emergency hearing.
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