Word: lao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great philosopher Lao Tze said two milennia ago, "The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death?" Even those Chinese who would prefer to be apolitical were touched by the hunger strikers. One million people gathered for days and nights in front of the Forbidden City, defying and challenging the reluctant, if not entirely untouchable, authority...
...Thailand afflicted with many of the tensions that have brought down paradisal Asian escapes like Sri Lanka and the Philippines. On the map, the kingdom is ringed by countries that sound ominous: the People's Republic of Kampuchea, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. Yet the land itself, for all its cyclone-cycle coups, is a pocket of relative calm and one of Washington's surest friends: the more the government changes, the more the monarchy stays the same...
...LAO is sponsoring the week's conferences and festivities and invited the Governor, economists, artists and writers to visit under the auspices of the Harvard Foundation, Capella said...
...Presenting this objective view of Puerto Rico represents the new attitude of LAO. It was founded as an activist group, advocating independence for the island, and in 1980, members burned American flags in front of John Harvard's statue. But now LAO is trying to unify all the groups," said Mariana Ortiz-Blanes...
Until this week, LAO achieved greatest recognition in the last few years from its Salsa party, members said. Although another party is planned this year, "The purpose of this week is to show Americans that there is more to Puerto Rico than Salsa, rum and status politics," said Ortiz-Blanes...