Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Premier left quickly, but Zhao stayed on. A proponent of rapid economic reform, Zhao was well aware that his predecessor, Hu Yaobang, supported political reform and was sacked for not moving quickly enough to crush student demonstrations more than two years ago. (Hu's death on April 15 sparked the first demonstrations of the past tumultuous month.) But in Tiananmen, Zhao did not go out of his way to avoid Hu's mistake. His eyes welling with tears, he acknowledged the patriotism of the students. "I came too late, too late," a student quoted him as saying. "I should...
...choice that faced China was between a serious erosion or even collapse of government authority and a massacre in Tiananmen Square. Deng and Li Peng would not risk anarchy, so they called in the military, but at least initially were hesitant to give it a free hand. That left it to the soldiers, their trucks blocked by mobs of pleading countrymen, to ponder another saying of Mao's: "Whoever suppresses the students will come to no good...
...Prague apartment of Vaclav Havel had been filled with friends welcoming home Czechoslovakia's most famous dissident playwright. Only that morning Havel, 52, had been released from prison after serving half of an eight-month term for inciting antigovernment demonstrations. Most of the ) visitors had left, when the doorbell rang. The erect, sad-eyed man in the hallway seemed like a ghostly apparition, his palms outstretched almost sheepishly and on his face a mysterious but familiar half-smile. The apartment fell silent. Then someone murmured, "Dubcek." Said Alexander Dubcek, hero of 1968's Prague Spring: "I had to come...
Despite such assurances, the Justice Department has convened a second grand jury in New York City to re-examine the original investigation. Saranow has left the IRS to open a bicoastal private-investigati on business with, among others, Anthony Langone, until recently the IRS's assistant commissioner for criminal investigation...
Gibbs, who declined to be interviewed for this report, proclaimed in a nationally televised news show before he left the IRS that he welcomed "a full, fair and complete airing." Since his departure, however, Acting Commissioner Michael Murphy, a career IRS bureaucrat, has been actively lobbying Congressmen to prevent any hearings. He believes that the IRS, which rarely hesitates to expose the peccadilloes of private taxpayers, would be hurt by the publicity. Last month Murphy turned up in Barnard's office to discuss whether the dispute could be ironed out in private, behind closed doors...