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...officials believe the attack on the students reflected desperation on the part of the country's gerontocracy, led by Deng Xiaoping. But though the crackdown was obviously meant to intimidate the people-power movement, it could have the opposite effect. Disaffected Chinese citizens are calling for the people "to unite in the open or underground," as one of them put it, "to seek revenge for all the deaths...
...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...
Pauley also alluded to the recent crackdown in Beijing in which thousands of unarmed students protesting for greater democracy were shot...
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...