Word: communists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton reviewed communist troops in Tiananmen Square, an action that told the world the deeds of the Chinese government, including the murder of protesters in 1989, didn't matter to the American people. And then he sold out 21 million free people in Taiwan by adhering to the one-China policy that does not support Taiwanese independence. Taiwan has now been set up the way South Korea was in the 1950s. ROBERT A. COOPER Phoenix, Ariz...
...Soviet-era KGB, expresses doubts about the authenticity of the bones, despite positive DNA tests. He calls them the "Yekaterinburg remains," a reference to the town in the Urals where the imperial family was killed in the early hours of July 17, 1918. President Boris Yeltsin--who as Communist Party chief there in 1977 had destroyed the site of the massacre--denounced the murder during his funeral address but stuck to the official church description of the remains as innocent and unnamed victims...
...bullet holes in the body of Alexei--"a beautiful child," one of the executioners recalled--and the way some of the women who hid behind cushions were finished off with bayonets. The killers took a certain pride in their work: in a 1964 interview taped for secret Communist Party archives, one of the execution party jovially referred to the corpses as golubchiki--the little dears...
...Havel, president since 1993 and leader of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that ousted the communist party, is losing popularity in the media. His health is also declining, and he will undergo abdominal surgery on July...
...People's Republic of China is the world's largest communist country with the most unrepentant authoritarian regime. Nobody should wish Chinese annexation on Taiwan. The hard-won democracy of Taiwan deserves the support of the U.S. If the Taiwanese people choose independence, their wishes should be respected. BOB IN-YU YANG Shawnee Mission, Kans...