Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marchers included 200 journalists employed by 40 state-controlled publications. 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...
...events in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have continued their odysseys through world capitals, proclaiming the promise of perestroika and the end of ideological conflict. All the while, the White House has turned away questions -- whether from allies, Soviets or the American press -- with the explanation that a sweeping policy review was under...
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush was considering options ranging from military force to economic sanctions against Panama...
...named Rebecca L. Berner '90 of Winthrop House and John R. Smith '90 of Leverett House as the winners of the prize, which is awarded to second semester juniors "for their thoughtful, imaginative, and dedicated leadership within the College and unusual contribution to House life," according to a HAA press release. HAA began the grant last year in memory of David Aloian, former HAA executive director and one-time master of Quincy House...
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