Chinese athletes Xu Haifeng, right, and Gao Min hold up the touch as they prepare to light the cauldron during the opening ceremony for the 11th Asian Games at the Workers Stadium September 23, 1990 in Beijing, China. The 16-day sporting event has become a major public-relations and political exercise as the communist government tries to wipe away the stain of the bloody suppression of the democracy movement in June 1989.

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Location: Workers Stadium, Beijing, China
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