Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staunchest political opponents. His roommate for two years was Joseph H. Cice '89-'90, who has since become co-chair of the BGLSA. (While Cice's door displays stickers for the environmental group Greenpeace, a bumper sticker on Granieri's door urges support for the Contras, noting that "Every Communist they kill now is one less you'll have to face later.") Granieri says the homophobia controversy put a strain on their relationship, but that the two are still friends...
...signal of future breakdowns in relations could be China's condemnation of the United States for giving refuge to dissident Fang Lizhi, a well-known astrophysicist. China accused Fang, who fled to the U.S. Embassy, of attacking the communist system and said Washington was interfering in China's internal affairs...
Soldiers continued firing into crowds around Beijing four days after troops began killing hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in the most violent suppression of a popular movement in Communist China's 40-year history...
Meanwhile, the political struggle between conservative and moderate factions of the Communist Party intensified as the military factions appeared to take sides...
Zhao Ziyang, the moderate Communist Party chief, was stripped of his post late last month in a confrontation with Li, President Yang Shangkun and Deng, the conservatives who ordered the army action...