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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MYTH Death by guillotine was quick and painless...
...protests recalled two other convulsive events in Tiananmen Square, both of which preceded major political turning points. In 1976, after the death of Premier Zhou Enlai, crowds numbering 100,000 marched through the square and eventually were brutally routed by club-wielding police. The demonstrations were widely interpreted as a revolt against the leftist policies of the so- called Gang of Four, who at the time had effectively seized power from the dying Mao Zedong. Two days later the Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, sacked Deng, the recently rehabilitated Senior Deputy Premier whom they suspected...
...most important lesson of last week's events was the degree to which China has changed since the deaths of Zhou and Mao, the downfall of the Gang of Four and the emergence of Deng. Says Fang Lizhi: "At the time of Premier Zhou's death, the people liked him, but they thought of him as a good dictator. The people were still Marxists then." By contrast, continues Fang, who welcomes the transition, the people no longer speak of Marxism, and when | they venerate a man like Hu Yaobang, they are paying homage to him not as a benign dictator...
...billion in extra revenue, raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying will triple: a death certificate goes from $5 to $15. Connecticut's Democratic Governor William O'Neill has sliced spending $150 million, and expects to close a remaining $97 million deficit mainly with sin taxes and a 15% surcharge on corporations...
Tommy Rosson, coach of the Harvard Boxing Club for 25 years, said competitive boxing has been banned at Harvard since 1961, after the death of a University of Wisconsin boxer prompted the end of intercollegiate boxing...