Monday,  April 30, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 291 • 17 of 29 •  Other Editions

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exploitation, bullying and discrimination in schools and police and the community.
• The event starts at 1 p.m. at the Washington Pavilion.
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AP News in Brief
Advocate for blind Chinese lawyer says US asylum deal expected ahead of Clinton's China visit

• BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. and Chinese officials are ironing out a deal to secure American asylum for a blind Chinese legal activist who fled house arrest, with an agreement likely before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives this week, a U.S. rights campaigner said Monday.

• Bob Fu of the Texas-based rights group ChinaAid said that China and the U.S. want to reach agreement on the fate of Chen Guangcheng before the annual high-level talks with Clinton and other U.S. officials begin in Beijing on Thursday.
• "The Chinese top leaders are deliberating a decision to be made very soon, maybe in the next 24 to 48 hours," Fu said, citing a source close to the U.S. and Chinese governments. Both sides are "eager to solve this issue,"

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