Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Split by factional strife and confronted by a clamorous, hostile public, the Communist Party leadership faced its most serious challenge in the state's 40- year existence. Every hour seemed to bring a fresh rumor, especially after the government ordered the restriction of China Central Television and the end of foreign television transmissions. Deng remained very much in charge, stripping power from Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader who only days earlier had been host of a banquet for Gorbachev. Premier Li Peng assumed control of the party as well as the government, but the bond between the Chinese people...
...choice that faced China was between a serious erosion or even collapse of government authority and a massacre in Tiananmen Square. Deng and Li Peng would not risk anarchy, so they called in the military, but at least initially were hesitant to give it a free hand. That left it to the soldiers, their trucks blocked by mobs of pleading countrymen, to ponder another saying of Mao's: "Whoever suppresses the students will come to no good...
...have such a superiority relative to the allies. Recall too that this increase in tank production is occurring when Gorbachev says he's cutting military expenditures in order to deal with domestic needs. Taken alone, this evidence could compel you to throw up your hands, say Gorbachev isn't serious and walk away. But it is possible that Gorbachev has simply changed so many variables already, like retiring the old marshals and permitting civilian think tanks to comment on military strategy, that production is an area he simply hasn't got around...
...paradox is that while prisons are filled beyond their capacity, there has been little discernible reduction in crime. Though rates of serious offenses dipped for a time during the 1980s, they have been climbing again, fueled by an influx of drugs. Prison gates have become more like revolving doors: nearly two-thirds of all convicts are rearrested within three years of their release...
...other serious charge against Wright--that he evaded House limits on outside income through bulk sales of his book to groups to which he had delivered speeches--was believed by panel members to be on solid ground, Torricelli said...