Andrew Jacobs Nyt News Service

The revelations have come from a diary said to document internal decisions that led to the violent crackdown.

600 volunteers and adroit English speakers have fixed more than 10,000 public signs and helped rewrite hundreds of restaurant menus. The campaign is partly modeled on Beijing's effort to clean up English signage for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Google, facing an assault by hackers who sought to penetrate the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, will stop cooperating with Chinese censorship and consider closing its offices and operations in China altogether, the company said on Tuesday.

The revelations have come from a diary said to document internal decisions that led to the violent crackdown.

600 volunteers and adroit English speakers have fixed more than 10,000 public signs and helped rewrite hundreds of restaurant menus. The campaign is partly modeled on Beijing's effort to clean up English signage for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Google, facing an assault by hackers who sought to penetrate the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, will stop cooperating with Chinese censorship and consider closing its offices and operations in China altogether, the company said on Tuesday.