http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/world/asia/21china.html?hp
CHENGDU, China =97 Eight days after a massive earthquake struck
southwest China, 129 students and 10 teachers were rescued in an
isolated small town in Wenchuan County, Chinese state media re****ted
Tuesday.
Early re****ts about the rescue in the town of Yinxing, carried by the
official Xinhua news agency, provided few details about the condition
of the students or the cir***stances of their rescue, except to say
that they were ferried to Chengdu, Sichuan=92s provincial capital,
aboard eight military helicopters, and taken immediately for medical
care.
Later re****ts said that 1,100 troops had been dispatched to the 60-
mile-long valley surrounding Yinxing village, and were proceeding from
hamlet to hamlet, intensifying search and rescue efforts in an area
that appears to have been largely overlooked in the initial emergency
response to the earthquake.
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