Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, acquaintences of the 20-year-old dissident say that study will not be the only thing on his mind. Since fleeing China last June in the wake of the government crackdown on protesters, Wuer Kaixi has pledged to carry on the fight for democracy from abroad...
However, acquaintences of the 20-year-old dissident say that study will not be the only thing on his mind. Since fleeing China last June in the wake of the government crackdown on protesters, Wuer Kaixi has pledged to carry on the fight for democracy from abroad...
...like too many others in the Bush Administration, seems convinced that the reformist, liberalizing trends sweeping the Communist world are essentially irreversible, requiring little more than the applause of the West. Even if updated to take account of the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the Politburo warnings of a crackdown in the Baltics, Fukuyama's thesis will probably not persuade Lech Walesa that history has yet reached a happy ending in Poland...
...Senator and protege of incumbent President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Galan was the clear front runner to win the presidency in next May's elections. But by killing him the narcotrafficantes may have finally gone too far. Instead of further intimidating the government, the murder of Galan helped intensify a crackdown that by last week had escalated to what a drug lords' communique called "absolute and total...
...central Polish town of Plock, Mazowiecki (pronounced Mah-zoh-vyet-skee), 62, is a devout Roman Catholic with strong ties to church activists who oppose Communist ideology. A close adviser to Lech Walesa, Mazowiecki helped form the union in 1980 and was jailed for a year after the government crackdown in 1981. Trained as a lawyer, he is editor of the union weekly, Tygodnik Solidarnosc, and was a key negotiator in the round-table talks that led to legalization of Solidarity and opposition participation in last June's elections...