Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-sealed precincts of life in the Soviet Union. But there were other spots where, at various times, the lens was met by an official hand raised to cover it: The Iran-Iraq war, the West Bank, the black townships of South Africa and the killing ground of Tiananmen Square. News photographers were banned from the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Soviet bombers fractured Afghan villages away from public view...
...Politburo's tentative first step toward a softening of its policies was already more than many had anticipated. Just two days earlier, President Erich Honecker, 77, had all but threatened a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown to halt the demonstrations that were spreading like a virus from city to city. But after the number of protesters multiplied into the tens of thousands, the Politburo announced a newfound willingness to discuss limited reforms. The sudden shift not only indicated a crack in one of the East bloc's most ossified regimes, but also spurred speculation that the ruling party was in disarray...
...Honecker greeted visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Yao Yilin, the official news agency ADN warned that "there is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the counterrevolutionary unrest in Beijing." But the Politburo's subsequent statement suggests that many within the ruling elite were drawing different conclusions from the Tiananmen debacle. Reports circulated that the Politburo had demanded an account of the nation's "critical situation" from Honecker. Soon thereafter Honecker postponed a visit to Denmark, fueling rumors that he was struggling for his political -- and maybe his physical -- life...
October 5th's front page story on the Institute of Politics forum entitled, "Eyewitness ot a Massacre: Tales from Tiananmen Square," was a nice description of the evening's events but for one exception...
...misspelling the word "Tiananmen" in your headline and throughout your article, The Crimson adds an additional black mark to the record of what should be America's premier student daily. Joseph Kusnan '93 Harvard Students for a Democratic China