Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the U.S. decision to stop arms sales and military contacts in protest of the bloody crackdown was a "detriment to bilateral relations...
BEIJING--Thousands of the troops responsible for the violent crackdown on the movement for freedom evacuated the city center early today, spraying gunfire as they passed Chinese and diplomatic residential areas...
...38th Army is said to have opposed the martial law crackdown and refused to fire on civilians. A soldier at Muxudi told The Associated Press soldiers of the 27th fired on his comrades...
...reformer but a liberator. That is one role that Mikhail Gorbachev does not want, since it could make him the protagonist in a tragedy. If glasnost and democratizatsiya seem to be tearing the Soviet Union apart, Gorbachev may be in the position of having either to order a crackdown himself or to yield to a successor who would do so. He, like Deng, may yet discover that starting a counterrevolution is far easier than determining where it leads...
...despite the reassurances, the political summit may prove to be anything but "no problem." What really deserved welcome was less the talks inside the Great Hall of the People than the protests outside, in Tiananmen Square. Crackdown or not, the protests were the "healthy development...