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What the "Tiananmen Papers" reveal is that the CCP refused to compromise at every step. During the Politburo meeting held on May 13th, 1989, then-Secretary of the CCP Zhao Zhiyang proposed the retraction of an April 26 editorial in the People's Daily that had defined the student movement as "anti-revolutionary turmoil." The April 26 editorial was one of the two reasons listed by the students for their hunger strike, and it is not difficult to imagine that, had a retraction indeed taken place, the two sides might have arrived at a basis for future compromises. At that...
...That's how I feel when I contemplate, on the one hand, the unclean, unsatisfactory records of Gale Norton and John Ashcroft, and on the other hand, the baying politburo of correctness (NOW and the People for the American Way, and all the rest) that is arrayed against Norton and Ashcroft, ready to throw acid in their faces. What a collection altogether...
...recall the infamous Moscow show trials of the 1930s. In those well-staged mockeries of justice - which the naive West bought lock, stock, and barrel - Stalin had his key political enemies legally lynched. Former premiers, members of the ruling Politburo and top military commanders were shot as traitors, saboteurs or foreign spies. Almost all of them were innocent of the crimes of which they had been accused, and almost all were posthumously exonerated...
...along, been an elite-driven, top-down thing. For much of history, the task of the individual innovator, working for some entity, state or private, and with privileged access to the contemporary store of facts, has been to satisfy the planning requirements of a king or CEO or politburo. The rest of us were not consulted...
...Motor Company of Japan donates $1 million for the construction of a new building near the Yenching Library and the expansion of Japanese studies. 17 - The Nobel committee announces that the 1973 peace prize will be awarded to Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, a member of the North Vietnamese Politburo, for negotiating the Vietnam War cease-fire...