Word: question
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surely this way madness lies. Having suffered through the massacre of thousands, China continued to lose its mind, lurching from question to question, contradiction to contradiction, sorrow to sorrow. Who was in charge? Would soldiers of the People's Liberation Army fight one another? Had the yearning for political change been snuffed out or merely suspended? What next for an anguished nation of 1.1 billion...
...this former mental patient get past the checkpoints? The screening devices were inspected and found to be working properly. "We really have no reason to question the effectiveness of our security in Los Angeles," said an American Airlines spokesman. But the Federal Aviation Administration is not satisfied: in March the agency reported that American had failed to detect weapons in 24 security tests in 1988, the worst performance among the 26 carriers that were fined. If the FAA determines that American let the hijack weapons get through, said an agency spokeswoman, "the carrier would certainly be subject...
...rulers and the thousands of demonstrators for democracy who had occupied Tiananmen Square. The whole affair, in fact, had developed the aura of a surrealistic ritual, with both sides' forces stepping in circles as if they were performing some stately, stylized pavane. Violence, it seemed, was out of the question. And then, early Sunday morning, the dance ended in a spasm of fury, the worst day of bloodshed in Communist China's history...
...genuine, and in this case unexpected, pleasure of an American President's triumph, caution remains necessary. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are a long way from disarming Europe, and the SNF controversy may come back to haunt Bush. But the President at least has removed one giant question that had hung over him since the Inauguration. He can lead the Western world. Now he must continue...
Chamorro's assessment of the Sandinistas is withering. In Nicaragua the 43- year Somoza dynasty is remembered with loathing, yet she says, "The Sandinistas, without question, are worse than Somoza ever was. The Sandinistas are a disaster. After ten years of them, there's nothing to eat. I had hoped, oh, how I hoped, that their revolution might be for the people. But it's all for themselves...