Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the tense early-morning hours of June 4, hope died and fear was born. Thousands of combat troops stormed Tiananmen Square, transforming the Woodstock-like encampment of young students calling for democracy into the bloodiest killing ground in Communist China's history. The images of defiance and devastation, the...
"Tell the United Nations, tell the world what has happened in China. Tell them that the Chinese government is killing the Chinese people."
African elephants have been slaughtered at an alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the primary source of the world's ivory. Their population has dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to just 625,000 today, and the rate of killing has been accelerating in recent years...
But killing you helped me keep you home.
From other radical speakers came a similar catalog of complaints. Journalist-Deputy Yuri Chernichenko took a daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a...