Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sparked by sympathy for the striking students, the protests are the most widespread in Communist China's 40-year history. Their broad appeal is reminiscent of the People's Power movement in the Philippines that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos...
...soft offensive, blitzing the public with self-serving propaganda in support of its policies. When the leaders of the new independent student union announced that they would go ahead with a march across the capital on May 4, the 70th anniversary of the birth of China's student movement, the newly pliable bureaucrats indicated that they would not interfere...
...Their demands: more press freedom and the reinstatement of Qin Benli, who was fired three weeks ago as editor of China's most outspokenly liberal journal, the weekly World Economic Herald in Shanghai. The journalists acknowledged the students' complaint that the official press had distorted the goals of their movement. "We can't solve our problems if we can't even write about them," said Chen Zongshun, a correspondent of the Workers' Daily...
...anything useful," he says. Only after the police roughed up demonstrators in front of Zhongnanhai compound, where China's top leaders officially live and work, was he moved to strong action. Says he: "After that, all my social gripes came surging out, and I threw myself into the movement...
...Anglicanism as opponents' refusing to recognize either women priests or priests ordained by female bishops. As for the Pope's letter, Archbishop Runcie soothingly characterized it as "only a matter of straight speaking between friends that can help the dialogue go forward." In England, Margaret Orr Deas, of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, complained that "the Roman Catholics are not giving anything away" in the negotiations, and she expects no concessions because John Paul is "an unrelenting man and firmly entrenched in his views." The Pope's stern letter by no means ends ecumenical discussions or such friendly...