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...democracy and for science. We have to be responsible to the martyrs." Wuer said there were many that night. "Simply put," he continued, "on June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of fresh flowers." He predicted that it would not last long: "Black...
...cowed Manhattan's glitterati 20 years ago has there been such a virulent outbreak of radical chic -- or so many political-disease detectives ready to stanch the epidemic. A single issue of the Village Voice ran eight articles on the movie, with opinions running from raves to cries of "fascist" and "racist." A political columnist for New York magazine charged that Lee's film could undermine the New York City mayoral campaign of a black candidate. Everywhere, the film has polarized white liberals for whom Bed-Stuy is as exotic and unknowable as Burkina Faso. Some...
...tanks are gone, the streets still teem with helmeted soldiers, AK-47s poised at their sides. The handwritten broadsheets that served as a free press have been peeled from walls, but perhaps some cyclists are heartened as they spot one last declaration chalked on the Forbidden City: THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT OPPRESSES THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. It is impossible to know what the people are thinking; they have lapsed into silence...
...Russian immigrants to France, Erwitt was born Elio Romano Erwitz in 1928 and moved to Italy at an early age. In 1938, his family was forced to leave the country because of Mussolini's fascist policies. Three years later, Erwitt and his father settled in southern California, where he bought his first camera, an antique glass plate...
Some of these on-air campaigns have drawn fire. When Leykis, of KFI-AM in Los Angeles, announced plans for a public burning of Cat Stevens records (fire-department objections forced him to switch to a steamroller), fellow KFI talk host Geoff Edwards denounced his tactics as "fascist" and refused to air his promotional spots. Edwards lost his job as a result. "You've got a lot of people with questionable credentials manipulating people's emotions," he gripes. "A guy who was a rock-'n'-roll deejay last week ((might be)) calling for the bombing of Iran...