Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repression began early this year when the Communist Party embarked on a no-nonsense effort to crush the stubborn remains of the "democracy movement" that had flourished in 1978 and 1979. Most of the activities, particularly putting up posters on Peking's "democracy wall," had already been banned by the party in 1980. Several of the liberals' most articulate spokesmen were arrested that year, including Liu Qing, deputy editor of the most widely circulated underground journal, April 5th Forum...
...makes good on his original promise to support a democratic regime that offers basic liberties to all citizens. "That would at least allow for the possibility of a reconciliation among the different tendencies, and for a government that could govern," says Banisadr. There is little chance, however, of the stubborn octogenarian's backing down, nor is there any individual or group that could unite the divided Iranians. The army is generally considered the most cohesive force in the country, but it is hopelessly bogged down in the border war with Iraq, now a year old, and its ranks...
California's stubborn Medfly shows up in a lush new area...
...strikers, as stubborn and high-spirited a bunch as ever hit the bricks, did not, of course, concede defeat. Despite the overwhelming Government pressure, they continued to picket airports from LGA (La Guardia) to LAX (Los Angeles International), rallying behind their bearded, owlish-looking president Robert E. Poli in an unusual show of solidarity. Poli, 44, a former controller himself, called the Administration's actions "the most blatant form of union-busting I have ever seen." Vowed he: "It will not end the strike...
...after another, I.R.A. members are starving themselves to death for the right, technically, to get the special handling accorded political prisoners instead of being treated as common criminals. But, in a far more profound way, the hunger strikes have come to symbolize the bitter and enduring struggle between the stubborn I.R.A. and the equally stubborn British. By week's end nine hunger strikers had died and others were on what they vowed would be their deathbeds. An inside report on what it is like to live in the Maze-and what it is like to die there...