Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liu Binyan's error is in thinking that the Tiananmen Square movement was wasted effort. International opinion was galvanized by the idea and image of non-violent students, gathered to express humanist ideals, bloodily crushed. If this movement is kept alive and if it eventually does succeed, the students of...
About 3000 delegates attended the emergency congress that began yesterday. The historic emergency congress, held in an East Berlin sports hall, began debating the party's proposed new program that calls for free elections and broad cooperation with opposition groups.
The East German Communists have lost much of their control over society in recent weeks and have granted historic concessions to the opposition, including opening the Berlin Wall and other borders, in a desperate effort to shed their Stalinist legacy and remain in power.
The talks followed weeks of historic concessions by the Communists to the nation's emboldened opposition movement, which has filled the streets with pro-democracy protesters and threatened a general strike Monday unless reforms are made.
The plan includes a terrace for dining, which looks out on the historic wall--all in an attempt to create an "inviting retail environment," Banker said.