Word: chai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHAI LING, 30; BOSTON; Tiananmen student-protest leader...
...elected commander in chief of the students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum. She came...
...CONTAINMENT AND APPEASEMENT won't work with China, what should Washington do? Why not try the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, first initiated by Zhou Enlai in June 1954: "mutual respect, nonaggression, noninterference, mutual benefit and, finally, peaceful coexistence." WINBERG CHAI Professor of Political Science University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming...
Rounding out the Harvard victory were singles wins by Granat (6-3, 6-0), sophomore Julia Kim (6-1, 6-1) and sophomore Anna Chai (3-6, 6-3, 6-0). In addition, Granat and Kim joined forces to cap off a doubles sweep...
While Kahane was alive, Kach was the natural home for Jewish extremists. But after his 1990 assassination in New York City, the group splintered badly. Kahane's son Benyamin formed an offshoot, Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), and took many of the original Kach activists with him to settlements in the West Bank, where he preaches--less charismatically--the same message his father did. While the group frequently harasses Palestinians and is suspected of having murdered several, its core activity is inciting Israeli Jews, touching off noisy demonstrations that often make the TV news...