Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line up in front of the Museum of the Revolution and fire into the crowd. Panic-stricken people fell to the pavement or cowered behind the imperial city's ornate stone lions. Many sought sanctuary at the Beijing Hotel complex, where military officers later combed through rooms searching for foreign journalists' notebooks and audio-and videotapes...
...days before the attack, the government began to show its desperation. It organized antiliberal rallies that became unwitting parodies of the strident Red Guard style of the '60s. The authorities tried to rein in the press. Foreign correspondents were warned to stop covering student activities, but few reporters took heed. Chinese television ceased live coverage from Tiananmen Square and began carrying statements from leaders expressing support for martial law. "Nobody takes the news broadcasts seriously these days," said an office secretary. "They are all a sham...
That spurred the alliance's 16 foreign ministers through a seven-hour marathon meeting that ended with a compromise on the 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...
...politician, I think it's the right thing to do." The President, said the prestigious British daily the Guardian, "rode to the rescue like the proverbial U.S. cavalry, at the last possible minute." There was even approval, though much more muted, from the Soviets. From Paris, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze called Bush's plans "serious" and a "step in the right direction...
Instead of using the conventional technique of painstakingly inserting / foreign genes into an egg cell with a tiny needle, the scientists simply bathed sperm cells in a solution of bacterial DNA. The sperm, from mice, incorporated the genes by some still unknown process, then went on to fertilize eggs in a test tube. As the mice matured, 30% of them produced an enzyme normally made only by bacteria -- proof that the bacterial DNA had become part of the mice's genetic makeup...