Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said 51 people were arrested at a railroad entry point to the site, where demonstrators reenacted a 1976 protest and then climbed onto the plant property. Another 81 were arrested inside the north gate and hundreds more inside the south gate, where they sat down after encountering a police line...
...receiving -- as if to underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount authority of Deng. As for Deng...
...considerable risk to their careers, 500 intellectuals, including Ba Jin, China's best-known writer, signed a letter denouncing Li and urging an end to press censorship. Until the hard-line faction emerged victorious, China's official press and television reported with neutral accuracy on the pro- democracy demonstrations. By contrast, last Friday's prime-time TV news was constricted to official statements of support for martial...
...When troops first appeared in Beijing's suburbs, they were met by crowds of citizens who peacefully blocked their path -- a Chinese version of "flower power." According to some Western analysts, the army leaders were made hesitant by the ambiguity of their situation. For example, the capital's hard-line mayor and party secretary passed on the martial-law order to the Beijing military command but without instructions as to when and how force was to be used...
...price have the hard-liners had to pay to guarantee the military's allegiance? "The party must control the guns," Mao wrote. "The guns must not control the party." But in China's postwar history, the military has frequently filled political vacuums. Could that happen again if a hard-line victory leads to a purge of reformers...