Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expression of protest. The students grasped the opportunity provided by the death of Hu Yaopang, the former chief of the Chinese Communist Party, to convey their grief as well as their indignation at the political system, the same as they had after the death of Zhou Enlai at the end...
Many students evaded the rules as well as they could--hiding women in the bathroom when tutors checked the rooms after the end of parietal hours for the day--and some organized protests against the proposed restrictions...
...have a new opportunity to end the arms race. But where Gorbachev is bold, Bush is cautious to a fault. I wish he would agree that we have a lot to fear today, but not a Soviet Union prepared to negotiate. So I wish he'd press ahead. What we need is a 50% reduction in the ICBMs. We need a reduction in the conventional forces. We need a comprehensive test...
...great political drama of 1989 was played out with the panoply and sweep of a revolutionary grand opera. While much of the world watched, for a time, via satellite TV transmission, hundreds of thousands of students and sympathizers filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding greater democratization and an end to nepotism and corruption. On Saturday, May 20, with the government and the Chinese capital paralyzed, the curtain rang down ominously on Act I: Premier Li Peng, a principal target of the demonstrators' wrath, and President Yang Shangkun imposed martial law; troops from the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) mustered...
After a 16-month search during which at least four top candidates removed their names from consideration, a search committee--composed of trustees--selected Wilson little more than a month before outgoing President Matina S. Horner will end her 17-year tenure...