Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China, we have a long-standing tradition of student protest. It remains unclear whether this can be best attributed to bravery on the part of the students, or the unwillingness of adults to protest given the threat of government repression. It is deeply rooted in our national psyche that to be truly patriotic entails risking one's life. But the idea also dawned on many minds, in the dark years when people were deprived of their lives in humiliating circumstances, why not make a statement before you perish? Such is the attitude that hundreds of thousands of Chinese...
PULLING off their long-worn masks imposed by threat from without and self-protection from within, the people are now able to identify with their fellow countrymen. A great unifying force erupted from this sudden identification. I am not alone in thinking what I am thinking, hoping what I am hoping. China is not hopeless. The hope is no other than the people themselves...
...designed to offer both a carrot and a stick to the West Germans. The carrot is a quicker start to missile- reduction talks, even though the U.S. will continue to insist on keeping some short-range nukes as an essential deterrent to Soviet attack. The stick is a threat to pull out even more U.S. troops from West Germany, which Kohl opposes. "What we have to do," says a State Department official, "is show the Germans that we have ideas for getting a conventional-arms agreement fairly quickly, so they could then get the talks they want on short-range...
...when Bush found himself in his first foreign policy crisis, the threat had nothing to do with the Soviet Union or its minions. The Monroe Doctrine, which proclaims the U.S.'s determination to keep the real imperialists from Europe out of the Western hemisphere, is irrelevant. Noriega is Uncle Sam's creature as well as his nemesis. Some Administration officials made a brief, silly attempt last week to blame the Kremlin for exploiting the trouble. Their only evidence: TASS, standing the story on its head, reported out of Panama that Noriega's opponents had cheated at the polls and fomented...
...total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate a crucial source of prehibernation protein, the whitebark pine nut. Though less than 20% of the whitebark pine trees in the park were burned, some scientists feel that a larger percentage of trees of nut-bearing age were...