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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article denied that students had been beaten in Beijing last week when they staged a sit-in at the gates of the Communist Party headquarters. An Associated Press reporter saw police hit six students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Plan to Continue Strike | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...very disturbing. How can our student representatives ignore the students that preceded them by 20 years, who got beaten and jailed for acting on some sort of idealism? How can some of these modern day student officials meet with Harvard officials and be convinced by them to carry out the administration's bidding...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Lieutenant Second-Class? | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

After losing its first Ivy match since 1983 against Yale Friday, the Harvard women's tennis team defeated the Bears, 6-3, yesterday in Providence, R.I. For the record, Brown hasn't beaten Harvard since April...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Rebound, Storm Past Brown, 6-3 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...climax of "Who the Mayor?" is the series of protests that grew up in response to the 1972 death of 16-year-old Larry Largey, who activists claimed was beaten to death by police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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