Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enraged aldermen barged into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie. Last week the institute was defending another inflammatory exhibit, a work by Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an American flag stretched out on the floor. The institute claimed that Old Glory was positioned so viewers would not be forced to walk on it. But Joseph Morris, a lawyer for several veterans' groups...
...Fang flap began innocently two weeks ago, when he received an elegantly engraved invitation from the U.S. embassy to attend Bush's brisket, beans and beer supper. Fang, an astrophysicist expelled from the Communist Party and fired from his job as a university vice president in 1987, was startled; by demanding democracy and calling socialism "the scourge of humanity in this century," the outspoken scientist has gone further than any other dissident in angering Chinese officials...
...case with the Soviet Union. But White House officials acknowledged that Bush never raised the issue directly in his private talks with China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping, and Premier Li Peng. The Chinese did, though. Toward the end of a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation on Sunday afternoon, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told Bush that dissidents threatened to upset the social order, which would "provide a pretext for the turning back of ((economic)) reforms." American support for them, Zhao added bluntly, "will not be conducive to the relationship between China and the U.S." Rushing...
...passengers and Washington lawmakers, the aviation industry issued a report last week calling for a sweeping overhaul of its older planes. The $800 million renovation would help rejuvenate the 3,300-jet U.S. fleet, which averages 13 years of service per jetliner and is the oldest in the non-Communist world. The industry report, prepared by a task force of public and private experts, urged carriers to repair or replace critical parts on 1,300 vintage Boeing aircraft. The study, launched after a large section of fuselage ripped off an Aloha Airlines 737 last April, pertained to Boeing...
...Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...