Word: protesters
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...protest quickly spread across the political spectrum. On May 18, 36 Senators signed a letter asking for changes in the NEA's grant-making procedures so that "shocking, abhorrent and completely undeserving" art would not get money. At the prompting of Texas Congressman Dick Armey, 107 members of the House sent a similar letter to the endowment...
...howls of protest from the arts lobby are timely since the NEA this year must undergo its five-year budget review. Congressman Sidney Yates of Illinois, a stalwart supporter of the arts whose subcommittee oversees the NEA, has asked acting endowment chairman Hugh Southern to come up with a way to make the endowment more accountable for its grants without opening the door to congressional micromanagement. Southern says he hopes to produce "something that's agreeable to all parties that doesn't get into any kind of chilling of expression...
China's hard-liners have vilified Wuer and other student protesters as counterrevolutionaries. But those who have known Wuer for years say he never sought to overthrow the government and that he hoped one day to join the * Communist Party. During the protests, he told reporters his aim was to "form a nationwide citizens' organization, like the Polish Solidarity," able to deal "openly and directly" with the government. Though sometimes overconfident, even cocky, he had no history of troublemaking. "He's a good student, he's from a good family, he loves the people, and he loves the country," said...
Without the constitutional prohibition against a third term, might he have run again? Reagan, in his first full interview since leaving the White House, gave that slow, easy smile, ducked his head in a kind of protest against such audacity. "I cannot answer that, really," he said. "With ((the 22nd Amendment)) in place, you did not even think of it. You knew that it was all over at the end of two terms." Hunch: he sure would have...
Still, the seven-week-long student protest in Tiananmen Square hit with the impact of a revelation, especially since it coincided with a very different sort of democratization taking place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the leaders of China dithered over what to do about the students' occupation of the political heart of the country, President Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the opening of a Congress whose members included purged former comrades, dissident intellectuals and outspoken non-Russian nationalists. In Poland the first halfway-open election in four decades produced a humiliating defeat for the Communist Party...