Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers kill a civilian, then pounced on the pair and beat them to death. An armored personnel carrier that had sped into the square half an hour before the main assault was blocked by a barricade of bicycle racks. Protesters mummified the APC in banners and cloth, then set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails, trapping its crew of eight or nine soldiers...
...fighting spilled out of the Tiananmen area and into other Beijing neighborhoods. Trucks were set afire, and the sound of shooting filled the air. Troops firing from the rooftops and upper floors of Radio Beijing and the Minzu Hotel wounded and killed people who were asleep in their homes. Across town, reporters sighted tanks on the move, some of them firing their cannon indiscriminately down what appeared to be near-empty thoroughfares. Huge blazes swept across residential districts...
...Set a ceiling of 275,000 each for U.S. and Soviet troops in Europe. That would require a cut of 30,000 soldiers for the U.S. -- 10% of overall strength or, as Bush pledged, 20% of combat troops. The Soviets would have to slash their troop strength nearly in half. All soldiers sent home would be demobilized. As with aircraft, the U.S. had previously refused even to consider troop cuts, claiming they were unverifiable...
...arms during the election campaign and now seeks to portray this week's drama as the logical outcome of a "prudent" process. In fact, he made up his mind little more than two weeks before the summit. Even then, Bush moved largely in response to Gorbachev, who had just set forth yet another compelling proposal to Secretary of State James Baker...
...London, Bush set about proving that the "special relationship" between America and Britain remained intact even though the U.S. had clearly been more solicitous of West German concerns in Brussels. Throughout his 40-hour stay, Bush sought to reassure Thatcher that she had not been eclipsed by Continental interests. Though it is unlikely that she will have as much influence with the cautious, pragmatic Bush as she did over Ronald Reagan, an ideological soul mate, the two found themselves in agreement on just about everything they discussed...