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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yuan, the government spokesperson, said on television that 300 people had been killed, including 23 students, and 7000 were injured and 400 soldiers were missing. The evening television news said 32 people were arrested, most of them for trying to set fire to public buses...
Kimberly A. McClain '89, who wrote her thesis on the Haliwa-Sapani Indians of North Carolina, will receive $1000 from a fund set up by Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in memory of his late sister, Kathryn Ann Huggins...
...means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan's long history has taught us that in the realm of human behavior there is no absolute right or wrong...
That was just the first in a series of moments of surprise and spontaneity that rocked the historic convention, which continues this week. No sooner did Gorbachev rise to chair the session than a delegate stepped forward to challenge the agenda, which had been set in a rump party session the day before by 446 delegates. "Please, People's Deputy Andrei Dimitreyevich Sakharov," invited Gorbachev as the stoop-shouldered Nobel Peace laureate -- his country's best-known dissident -- took the microphone. Sakharov, who only 2 1/2 years ago was enduring exile in the city of Gorky, expressed concern that...
...that the Congress was not out to rock the boat. An attempt was made to draft the popular Yeltsin, but he withdrew his name, citing party discipline. Leningrad engineer Alexander Obolensky, 46, a | political unknown, nominated himself -- not because he had any illusion of winning, he explained, but "to set a precedent" of contested elections. By 1,415 to 689, the assembly voted to keep Obolensky's name off the secret ballot. Gorbachev was elected President with 95.6% of the vote; 87 delegates voted against...