Word: statement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said there were many that night. "Simply put," he continued, "on June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of fresh flowers." He predicted that it would not last long: "Black sun, I'm going to shoot you down...
There on Weinberger's desk was a confession by Corporal Arnold Bracy, a 21- year-old Marine who had been stationed in Moscow the previous year. Bracy's statement convinced virtually the entire Government that there had been a nightmarish security breach. By planting bugs in the embassy's communications equipment, the Kremlin may have compromised CIA operations and gained advance knowledge of U.S. negotiating positions. The scandal led to paralysis, paranoia and recrimination. Electronic communication to and from the Moscow embassy stopped dead. Tons of equipment were torn out of the building and returned to the U.S. for analysis...
...project identified in the audit was a Florida development that served upper-income people and charged $2100-a-month rent for two-bedroom units, the department said in a statement that announced Kemp's decision to suspend the program...
...regret the judge's decision. I have absolutely no prejudgment or prejudice regarding Pete Rose," Giamatti said in a statement. "We will contest this matter tooth and nail...
...French clay. Since Tony Trabert succeeded at Paris in 1955, not one of the grand Americans -- not Stan Smith, not Arthur Ashe, not Jimmy Connors, not McEnroe -- had ever won the French. And the brazen way Chang finally did it galled McEnroe, 30, who muttered the fairly amazing statement, "We've got to teach these kids some manners...