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...million protesters demand ousters of Deng and of Prime Minister Li Peng. Number of hunger strikers increases to 3000. Martial law declared...
...hide them from visitors who will attend the 1990 Asian Games in the Chinese capital this September. No less deceptive is the charade that is performed each night at major intersections throughout the city. Disguised as policemen, combat-ready army officers man security checkpoints that were allegedly dismantled when martial law was lifted in January. Says a dissident intellectual: "Stability is only an illusion...
...martial metaphors and atmosphere of antagonism are perhaps inevitable in any situation in which interest is set against interest. But they are not appropriate to the present state of transatlantic trade, which is one of near equilibrium moving toward a modest U.S. export surplus. As recently as 1987, in the aftermath of the overvalued dollar, the U.S. ran a large deficit in trade with the Community, but once the dollar came back to earth, that deficit dwindled, just as the experts said it would. Today the E.C. is no longer a factor contributing to the U.S. trade deficit...
...yesterday, on the spot where George Washington first took command of the Continental army, the outward signs of patriotism were all there. The veterans put on their uniforms once again and held their flags aloft. A taped band played martial airs, and the military cannon was fired once again...
...detail of resistance is too small for China's hard-line leadership to crush these days, despite the lifting of martial law in Beijing last January. The campaign of repression that followed the June Tiananmen massacre continues unabated, as authorities attempt to roll back all vestiges of "bourgeois liberalization...