Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bicycle is my best friend--I ride it everywhere. I tied a red ribbon to the handlebars so that it wouldn't get lost among the rows and rows of black bikes in the streets every day. Last week we rode into Tiananmen Square. You cannot imagine a space this big, and full of people. It must have been an incredible sight last...
Since the Tiananmen crackdown in June, many China watchers had been convinced that Deng would retain his last post for a while longer to preserve his legacy of economic growth as well as to ensure the succession of his newly anointed heir, Jiang Zemin, a former Shanghai mayor who was named General Secretary in the chaos following the massacre. So far, however, Jiang has had little opportunity to prove his mettle. In fact, even though the Central Committee named Jiang to succeed Deng, it also expanded the powers of hard- line President Yang Shangkun, 82, a Jiang rival. Unlike Jiang...
Great as our differences are over what happened in Tiananmen Square, our differences were infinitely greater when we established relations in 1972 after 23 years of no communication whatever. But we recognized then that while we had irreconcilable differences, we had one overriding common interest that brought us together -- the need to develop a common policy to deter an aggressive and expansionist Soviet Union that threatened us both. Today, when the conventional wisdom is that the Soviet threat has diminished and when many even proclaim that the cold war is over, do we still have a common interest that overrides...
...anything else that might. Until the opening of the Wall, however, Krenz's reformist inclinations had seemed ambiguous. For many years he had been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion seemed sparked less by ideological conviction than by a desperate desire to cling to power in the face of street protest and refugee hemorrhage...
...goals, I will give him 10 bullets in the chest." To date over 130 Palestinians who have resisted the Intifada have been brutally murdered by their own brothers. What will it take for people to realize that the Intifada is not a peaceful demonstration like the one in Tiananmen Square, the suppression of which prompted Yassir Arafat to express "extreme gratification"? The Intifada is a violent movement that kills and maims with bombs and stones. When will we stop "romancing the stone...