Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's Olympic medalists rode on their own float. A handful of students flashed a personal greeting for their leader as the youngsters passed the reviewing stand displaying a homemade banner that read XIAOPING NINHAO (HELLO, XIAOPING). With nightfall came a stupendous display of fireworks and laser lights. For more than an hour, 278 artillery tubes fired 40,000 pyrotechnic rockets that rose up to 1,000 ft. over the capital. Some 200,000 celebrators participated in folk dancing. Peking residents were dazzled: there was no precedent for the sheer grandeur of the extravaganza...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Not only was China showing off weaponry that outsiders had not been permitted to see before, but as Peking Military Region Commander Qin Jiwei made clear, it was the first such demonstration in 35 years. Said a Western military attache: "It was an impressive display of equipment that shows a pretty good capability in terms of manufacturing. There wasn't a piece there that was not made in China." If the review provided no stunning surprises, the closeup look at relatively advanced conventional weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles gave foreigners an opportunity to gauge...
With almost theatrical timing, the forces in the display paraded past the reviewing stand with progressively more sophisticated arms. The climax came with China's pride, the big missiles. The contingent was led by two short, stubby rockets that Western observers recognized as CSS-NX-4s, still experimental but deployed for trials aboard one of China's two Afa-class ballistic-missile submarines. With a limited range probably similar to that of early U.S. sub-launched Polaris missiles (1,200 to 1,500 miles), the CSS-NX-4 nonetheless is a potent weapon: its existence ensures that part...
Stephen DiGiovanni, a spokesman for his father's firm, says that he can not see what the Coop has to complain about. "If anything, it's brought more people to the Coop's display window. My question to the Coop is how that disrupts their business," he says...
Despite the loss, the tournament did provide an opportunity for Harvard to display its own improvement--Coach Ishan Gurdal fielded all of his players in at least one of the games...