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Night after night, arriving on bicycles or on foot, they converged on Beijing's gigantic Tiananmen Square. Gathering ostensibly to mourn the ousted Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, who had died the previous weekend at 73, the throngs of university students actually had a much more provocative, and important, goal in mind: a demand for greater democratization in the world's most populous country. Implicit in the spreading protest campaign was a call for a shake-up in China's Communist leadership, including the retirement of Deng Xiaoping, 84, after a decade in power. In a scene never witnessed...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...
...unrest was perhaps the most violent since demonstrations began April 15, when the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang stirred antigovernment sentiments and an organized protest campaign by university students...
...said 130 security officers were injured and 18 people were arrested. Xinhua said the melee began after students who had been mourning Hu left the scene...
Since 1985, several articles have appeared in the national press attacking Asian-American admissions policies at public universities in the West and selective Eastern institutions, particularly Harvard. Critics, like Berkeley professor L.C. Wang and MIT graduate Arthur Hu, have charged that Asian-Americans are admitted at a substantially lower rate here than whites and other minorities and that Asian-Americans have to be more academically qualified than others to be admitted...