Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What did Bosket do to deserve such barbarous treatment? Plenty. He was 15 when he shot to death two New York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat...
...compromise that paved the way for the retirement of a clutch of old party conservatives. That disclosure got Zhao in trouble less because it was made to the representative of an old enemy nation than because it signaled to the viewing audience that resentment of the government's treatment of the hunger strikers should be directed at Deng. Zhao's effort to distance himself from the government and Deng was, the Politburo apparently judged, inexcusable...
...Gorbachev, who came to Beijing in his guise of Triumphant Conciliator, the demonstrations, which hailed his other persona of Democratic Liberator, were something of an embarrassment. The contrast with the treatment accorded Deng, once recognized as a great economic reformer and the author of China's recent prosperity, could not have been starker: huge effigies were paraded around with placards saying DOWN WITH DENG XIAOPING...
...people to obstruct tanks and of hunger strikers to court death. If anything, the absence of an ideology with specific long-range aims indicates just how powerful is the public revulsion at the party and the entire status quo. The immediate reasons for the discontent -- the government's condescending treatment of the student demonstrators and its general repressiveness -- are clear. But the anger also stems from the less political aspects of everyday life. Economically and socially, China is experiencing many of the dislocations that typify an era of revolutionary change. The overall effect is one of widespread frustration and ^ rising...
...never really scared, although I was nervous at the thought that my treatment could have been different if I were stopped some 40 or 50 years ago, or if I had been stopped in Roxbury. And I wondered how many Blacks, Brookline residents as well as visitors, were stopped that night...