Word: lu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide Mihçioĝlu, 42, the wife of the embassy's chargé d'affaires, and her son Atasay...
When Ren Wanding [head of the Chinese Human Rights League], Wei Jingsheng, Fu Yuehua, Chen Lu, Zhang Wenhe and others were arrested in March 1979, the event was followed closely by the Chinese and foreign press. Why this concern about the fate of a few ordinary Chinese citizens? It is because the arrests had created a cold March wind that was blowing across the Chinese political horizon...
...Taiwan government suggests that Chen committed suicide. Colleagues and compatriots in the U.S. suspect that he was killed by the government-and fear they might be next. Says Lu Wang, 40, a data-processing analyst in New York City: "The Chen case has hit us like a tornado. In every heart there is fear. The case is not an isolated instance...
Nonetheless, in the early days of the junta's rule, most Turks seem to agree that the takeover has given the country a badly needed respite. Said Orhan Koloğlu, a former aide to Ecevit: "I like to walk two or three miles every day, but I haven't been able to do it lately; I was afraid for my life. Now I know I shall be safe. In a month's time, there may be cause to be frightened again. But for the moment, this is a welcome change...
...other side of the world, a Taiwanese court sentenced Lu Hsiulien, a recent graduate of the Law School and a prominent political activist in Taiwan, and seven other dissidents to prison terms of 12 years to life for what the government termed was their support of the Taiwanese independence movement...