Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIJING--Nearly a million people from all walks of life poured into central Beijing yesterday and demanded that leader Deng Xiaoping step down. Premier Li Peng told student leaders that their five-day hunger strike has thrown the city into chaos...
Undaunted by two downpours, the marchers chanted, sang, banged on pots and pans, and some acrobats did backflips as they converged on Tiananmen Square where more than 3000 college students are on a hunger strike for democracy...
...hunger strike began yesterday in front ofthe party headquarters, involving about 30students and--for the first time--teachers...
More than 2000 of the fasters have beenhospitalized since the strike began Saturday, but1500 of them have returned to continue the fast.The official media said strikers were sufferingfrom pinkeye and dysentery...
Accepting defense claims that he was following orders from higher-ups, the jury convicts the retired Marine on only three of twelve charges in the Iran- contra affair. -- A TIME poll finds most Americans want a pardon for North. -- A coal strike in Virginia that would astonish John L. Lewis. -- The strange career of a top congressional aide...