His death, at White Plains Hospital, followed a stroke he suffered late last month, his daughter Robin Topping said. In a peasant hut in Central China, where he was being held prisoner, Mr. Topping, as a young correspondent, listened all night to the thundering artillery. As he looked up into the rifle muzzle of a People’s Liberation Army soldier, he wondered what the silence portended. Topping recalled that artillery silence as a defining moment in history.

Source: International New York Times November 08, 2020 13:30 UTC