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...convulsive events in Tiananmen Square, both of which preceded major political turning points. In 1976, after the death of Premier Zhou Enlai, crowds numbering 100,000 marched through the square and eventually were brutally routed by club-wielding police. The demonstrations were widely interpreted as a revolt against the leftist policies of the so- called Gang of Four, who at the time had effectively seized power from the dying Mao Zedong. Two days later the Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, sacked Deng, the recently rehabilitated Senior Deputy Premier whom they suspected of masterminding the demonstrations...
...without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government has gone too far in snubbing controversial revolutionary leaders. "They are going to present people with a pasteurized, dissected, plastic-wrapped revolution," complains philosopher and leftist philosopher Andre Glucksmann...
President-elect Alfredo Cristiani blamed leftist guerrillas for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June 1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day, however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with the F.M.L.N...
MICHAEL Doonesbury has my sympathy. Gary Trudeau's cartoon leftist-turned-blow-dried-Yuppie is wrestling with the classic liberal dilemma...
Granted, Mlot-Mroz's politics are reprehensible. A self-described Polish freedom fighter, Mlot-Mroz--who is a frequent counter-demonstrator at Boston-area leftist protests--is little more than a thinly-veiled fascist...