Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...27th that drove pro-democracy demonstrators from the center of Beijing on Saturday on orders from the hard-line hierarchy, killing hundreds in the most violent suppression of a popular movement in Communist China's 40-year history...
Most of the soldiers involved were from the 27th Army, which is based in Hebei province and apparently is led by members of Yang's family. The 27th, which fought China's brief 1979 war with Vietnam, invaded the city Saturday night and rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds...
...advent of the French Revolution and the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a million Chinese marched in the streets of Beijing, demanding democracy and constructing their own Statue of Liberty. Despite the government's wanton massacre in the main roads surrounding Tiananman Square of 200,000 protesters on Saturday, and the threat of further crackdowns, hundreds of thousands returned to the streets this week in one of the most courageous defiances of government authority the world has seen in recent years, proving that, ultimately, force can not destroy a people's deep yearning to be free...
...James Fallows, author of More Like Us: Making America Great Again, contends that the Japanese economy is chronically biased in favor of corporate profits and investment abroad at the expense of the Japanese consumer's living standard. Example: the Japanese have only recently begun to do away with mandatory Saturday office hours. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen, in his recently published book The Enigma of Japanese Power, argues similarly that Japan is run by a near conspiracy of Big Business and bureaucracy, whose only concern is to expand global market share...
...more than seven decades of Soviet rule. But the assembly also revealed a profound regard for the status quo in carrying out one of its principal jobs: the election of 542 members of the Supreme Soviet, which will serve as the country's working legislature. In voting results announced Saturday, most anti-establishment candidates, some of whom had defeated high-ranking Communist Party members to reach the Congress, lost their bids to be seated in the Supreme Soviet. The rebuffed reformers included Boris Yeltsin, the former Moscow party chief who resigned his post in the Construction Ministry earlier...