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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country at any time, such a confrontation between power and protest would be extraordinary. In China, a nation whose tradition is suffused with respect for authority, last week's outpouring of discontent was nothing short of revolutionary. No major power in the postwar period has ever been so rudely shaken -- rocked, in fact, to its foundation -- by the dissent of its populace. Still, on the faces of the hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square and of their millions of supporters around the country, the message was clear: China had crossed a threshold into a new era, where the future was entirely...
...achievement almost proved short-lived. As the number of demonstrators in the square dwindled to nearly none, the students decided to employ one of civil disobedience's most sacred weapons, the hunger strike. With a large contingent of foreign press on hand for the Gorbachev visit, the decision seemed a brilliant public relations ploy. But the choice of tactics also harked back to the sensibility of a much earlier...
Cavazos adamantly defends himself against charges that his brief tenure has been short on results and vows to quiet skeptics with an upcoming series of hard-hitting speeches. "I'm more concerned with solutions than criticism," he says. "Has ((Treasury Secretary Nicholas)) Brady solved the budget crisis yet? Has the drug problem disappeared...
...West Germans say they believe in the value of a nuclear deterrent, but they want to negotiate with the Soviets on the short-range nuclear force (SNF) right away. What's wrong with that...
While it's true that the Soviets have more short-range nuclear weapons -- and that they've modernized their short-range missiles while we are still relying on our old Lance, we nevertheless have a sufficient capability to create that crucial uncertainty in their mind regarding a war's outcome. I don't want to risk a run to zero by opening up a negotiation in the current climate...