Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Describing his friend, Wang Dan--one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest--Shen Tong said, "He [Dan] was a sophomore at Tiananmen and has been in prison for seven years, he's suffering from prostate disease...
...Protest leaders said that they are upset that the University administration has displayed a "disingenuous attitudes" concerning the screening and censoring of the questions for Jiang, according to Tashi Rebgay, coalition spokesperson...
Asked about the potential for civilian protest at his various stopping points in the first Chinese Presidential visit to America in 12 years, President Jiang Zemin told a New York Times reporter that, as a guest of President Clinton, the responsibility for maintaining order was not his concern. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, speaking to an NBC reporter the day before Zemin arrived in Honolulu on the first stage of his visit, suggested that he would not have "a totally fuzzy time." Exactly how "fuzzy" Zemin's visit to Boston will be this Saturday remains to be seen...
...historic nature of Zemin's arrival in America, the expected crowds and the amoral role Harvard has taken by giving him a podium from which to speak, requires a far greater focus on the method of protest than we have seen from the Harvard activist community to date...
...students also presented House majority leader William P. Nagle Jr. (D-Hatfield) with a petition signed by 222 Harvard community members who protest the bill...