Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call to the barricades, rushed to the district by the thousands. Soldiers stripped off their belts and used them to whip people; others beat anyone in their path with truncheons, bloodying heads as they tried to pry an opening through the mob. For 5 1/2 hours the students held fast. Then the army inexplicably vanished. Within an hour, off Qianmen West Road on the southern end of the square, 1,200 more troops appeared. Once again they were surrounded by civilians; the soldiers again retreated...
Some protesters held fast, fighting with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Near a hotel entrance, a group of demonstrators saw two soldiers kill a civilian, then pounced on the pair and beat them to death. An armored personnel carrier that had sped into the square half an hour before the main assault was blocked by a barricade of bicycle racks. Protesters mummified the APC in banners and cloth, then set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails, trapping its crew of eight or nine soldiers...
...hotly divisive subject of negotiations to lower the number of short-range nuclear forces (SNF) in Europe. West Germany won agreement that bargaining would indeed begin, but not until conventional-arms reductions were under way, which would be 1992 at the earliest. Britain and the U.S. held fast for agreement that such talks would aim at only a partial reduction of U.S. and Soviet warheads and not, as Bonn wanted, at their complete elimination...
Although an overwhelming majority of law students enter private practice upon graduation, an increasing number are pursuing careers in public service, which almost always offers lower pay than the private sector. In fact, demand is rising so fast, says Sander, that the report recommends the establishment of an endowment to relieve LIPP's strain on the school's budget...
...moved along, but not as fast as I would like," says Jewett, adding that he thinks such a center will "put us well on the way to improving the situation for extracurriculars and the humanities." Jewett says he hopes construction on the project will begin as soon as funds become available, although he notes that FAS has not earmarked the centers for a specific fund drive...