Word: soon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Short Takes has installed 20 booths so far in New York City and Minnesota, and plans to distribute 1,000 more around the U.S. during the next year or so. Coming later this summer: Baby Takes. Proud parents in maternity wards at three Minneapolis hospitals will soon be able to introduce the newest ham in the family. Come on, kid, wave...
...what may have been planned only as a show of force turned into a bloodbath. Soon armed soldiers and unarmed protesters were locked in furious combat. Ruan Ming, a former lecturer on Marxism at Beijing's Communist Party School, argues that a propaganda blitz mounted by the government last week to justify the Tiananmen sweep was an attempt to "salvage the situation and save face...
...days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority of people -- even in the once radical Shanghai -- have been frightened into nervous silence...
...task may be impossible without a wholesale change in the leadership, which is not likely soon. Deng was deservedly admired for having navigated China toward economic modernization, but his achievement is tainted by the blood of the demonstrators killed in Beijing. The aged conservative revolutionaries surrounding him are out of touch with a population whose majority is under 40 years of age. The P.L.A., contrary to its popular repute, has shown itself to be the regime's, not the people's, army. Said a senior British diplomat last week: "There is not a single institution that has not been besmirched...
Khomeini and his followers attempted to stifle every vestige of opposition to the imposition of a Muslim theocracy. In so doing they set standards for brutality and injustice that at least equaled -- and probably surpassed -- the worst excesses of the Shah's regime. A clergy-dominated security system soon rivaled SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, in terror and bloodthirstiness...