Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Embarrassed by the continuing presence of demonstrators, Chinese officials move site of official welcoming reception for Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev from Tiananmen Square to Beijing airport. Some 2200 students begin a hunger strike...
...million protesters demand ousters of Deng and of Prime Minister Li Peng. Number of hunger strikers increases to 3000. Martial law declared...
...party headed by Rehavam Ze'evi, who is demanding the sensitive post of Police Minister as the price for his support. Ze'evi informed the Knesset last week, "Arabs only understand when they are clubbed on the head." Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, one of 46 Palestinians who launched a hunger strike to protest last week's killings, was no more encouraging in his assessment of the situation. "This is our last attempt to defend our program of nonviolence," said Husseini. "If it fails, the consequences will be terrible...
When sociologist Zhou Duo heard that the tanks were rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, where he had been on a hunger strike to show solidarity with the students, his first thought was to wave a white flag. But he dismissed the idea as ignoble. Instead, Zhou, 43, and popular singer Hou Dejian approached the oncoming soldiers and negotiated an agreement that allowed the demonstrators to withdraw peacefully...
...first night reading Nabokov's Speak, Memory. In the morning I wrote a statement to the doctor in charge declaring that my wife and I had been separated by force, and that I would refuse all medical procedures / until we were reunited, and would not end my hunger strike until I was certain that Liza would be granted permission to emigrate...