Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kevin "I've got to Cover up my" Hickey...
...first glance, the slim volume with the red cover that found its way into the mailboxes of a few foreigners in Beijing last week read like one of the impassioned tracts circulated by Chinese students during their protests last spring. On closer scrutiny, however, the language was far harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful...
...Linden experienced a kind of epiphany. "I had thoughts oddly similar to those I had when I flew in a small plane across the Arctic -- a sense of reassurance that the world still contained places so immense and so empty of people," recalls Linden, who wrote this week's cover story. "But while the emptiness of the Arctic is austere, the forest canopy that seems to extend into infinity is choked with life...
...Councillor and rent control advocate David E. Sullivan puts it, "Point 3 is essentially a dead letter. That particular fig leaf that the sponsors are using to cover up the other things they are doing is no longer available...
...Justice Department has asked for material regarding tuition, fees, student financial aid, and faculty and administrative salaries. The information is to cover 1985 through 1988 and must be provided by the end of the month...