Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Yenching Library plans to create a permanent collection marking the Chinese pro-democracy movement, Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar said last night at a panel on last June's Beijing crackdown...
Ellen Convisser, president of Boston NOW, said she was pleased with the efforts that the students at Harvard and other campuses are making because of their importance to the pro-choice movement...
...People need to be called, you need to get on people's cases a little bit, but people seem to be very sympathetic to the pro-choice movement," James M. Kittelberg '90, another organizer for the group, said. "Once you call people andget them moving the results can be astounding...
...leaders contacted this week said theprotests are part of a strategy to avoid enteringa state-by-state battle with anti-abortionactivists, where the choice movement could befragmented...
...know," said an 88-year-old man in a Beijing park. It was early morning, and along with a score of others, the old man was exercising his birds -- by illusion. The men walked about and swung their birdcages. The movement is said to convince the birds inside that they are free. "We trick them, you know," he said. "How long can they stay fooled? Who knows? Maybe they hope. Like us. We hope. I hope. But you know, in China it is dangerous to hope. Your heart is always being broken." I said I knew...