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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...
After his meetings and lunch with Deng, Gorbachev stepped into a Beijing street to announce his nation's resumption of friendly ties with China, but steered clear of the prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...
Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said people shouted "Welcome! Welcome!" and cheered when Gorbachev said he and Deng had normalized relations...
...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...