Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIJING--Nearly a million people from all walks of life poured into central Beijing yesterday and demanded that leader Deng Xiaoping step down. Premier Li Peng told student leaders that their five-day hunger strike has thrown the city into chaos...
Hundreds of thousands called for Deng, the 84-year-old leader who started China on its road to reform in 1978, to step down...
Rumors spread through the crowd yesterday afternoon that Deng had retired, touching off welps for joy and standing ovations...
Reports have said Deng planned to relinquish his active role in setting policy after the Chinese-Soviet summit. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev left China yesterday...
...back to the state guest house after seeing Deng, the 58-year-old Soviet leader stopped his limousine and got out to shake hands with pedestrians, as he often does when visiting foreign capitals...