Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's efforts to bury the shattered remains of the democracy movement and to provide a justification for the brutal military suppression near Tiananmen Square play far better outside the capital. There memories of the dunce caps, denunciations and deaths of the Cultural Revolution may be more vivid than the fuzzy reports of recent events in Beijing. Even in Shanghai, China's largest city and a hotbed of pro-democracy activity just two weeks ago, the spy-on-your-neighbor campaign is having the intended effect. Says a Shanghai cabdriver: "Bad elements took over the student movement. The army bravely...
Caught between the need to reassure the outside world and intimidate citizens at home, China's aging leaders are still groping for a way out of the political morass. The desire to grind out all traces of the democracy movement takes precedence. A court in Shanghai accused three people of burning a train that ran over a human barricade, and quickly sentenced them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable...
...hair, big round eyes, high cheekbones. Shown last week on Chinese television on secret videotape from a Beijing hotel that falsely suggested he was eating when he was on a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. Wanted by the Chinese government. His crime: he was a leader of the prodemocracy movement...
...hard-liners as an argument against political reform at home. In fact, Gorbachev's party seemed in little danger of suffering a Polish-style humiliation at the polls. For one thing, the Soviet reform impulse is coming down from the leadership rather than welling up from a grass-roots movement, as in Poland. For another, Gorbachev does not have a large, well-organized opposition to contend with and has ruled out for now the idea of multiparty elections. Yet the debacle of the Polish party must be giving him second thoughts about how much further he can push political democratization...
...China. But Moscow's options were limited. After almost two decades of exchanging ideological insults, the Chinese were scarcely prepared to accept a lecture from the Soviets. In any case, admonitions would only feed lingering Chinese suspicions that the Kremlin still harbors hopes of playing schoolmaster to the Communist movement. So what is left, in Moscow's view, is nothing but time and patience. "If you think we don't understand the situation, you are wrong," said a frustrated Soviet observer last week. "Not one Soviet, from the President on down to a schoolchild, approves of China...