Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wreaths lay beside the wooden coffins in Heroes' Square. There, last week, more than 200,000 mourners gathered in downtown Budapest to bury the Stalinist ghost in Hungarian history. Church bells tolled, and the people sang the Szozat, the emotionally charged hymn of the nation's repeated triumphs over foreign domination...
...bloodiest urban massacre in Communist China's history never took place. Thousands of troops never stormed the perimeters of Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, probably thousands, of students never died. Photographs depicting bloodied faces and battered bodies, news footage documenting the clatter of gunfire and the crunch of army tanks, foreign press reports detailing the pileup of dead and wounded bodies at hospitals -- none of it happened...
...real danger, however, was that foreign press crews might continue to disseminate truthful information, blackening the Chinese government's careful whitewash. At midweek officials charged two American correspondents, Alan Pessin of the Voice of America and John Pomfret of the Associated Press, with violating martial-law restrictions, and gave them 72 hours to leave China...
...since John F. Kennedy arrived to denounce the Berlin Wall in 1963 have West Germans lavished such adulation on a foreign visitor as they did last week on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. But the messages left by the two travelers, their visits separated by 26 years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
...addition, both countries endorsed "the right of peoples to self- determination." For the Soviets that code phrase amounted to a virtual renunciation of the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, the justification for the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Joked Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "Now we have the Frank Sinatra doctrine -- let them do it their...