Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deng; the elders, it was said, intended to force Deng out of his role and replace him with the more conservative and orthodox President Yang. Beijing analysts discounted the theory as overly sensational. In fact, Deng is the most hard-line enemy of the students. Only the party turmoil may have delayed him from lining up support for his position. The massive sweep through Tiananmen could not have been facilitated without the cooperation of the various military factions that owe fealty to such veterans of the revolutionary war as Yang, Li and Peng Zhen...
...Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a fixture of Cambridge politics and one of the architects of rent control, announces that he will not seek re-election to the city council next fall. His departure, along with those of Sullivan and Graham, throw the city's liberal forces into turmoil...
Both Bok and Horner praised students now protesting in China as models of courage and said the turmoil there should serve as a reminder of the freedom of the Class of 1989 will enjoy after graduation...
...asked the ethics committee to determine whether the bond deal was a favor, Coelho could see what lay ahead. He announced that he was quitting his leadership post immediately and resigning from Congress on June 15, his 47th birthday. "I don't intend to put my party through more turmoil," he told the New York Times...
While the stock market gyrated, the turmoil in China disrupted efforts to draft the Basic Law, which will serve as Hong Kong's constitution after 1997. Talks between Chinese and Hong Kong negotiators have been under way since 1985. But two key Hong Kong representatives -- Louis Cha, publisher of the Ming Pao newspaper group, and Anglican Bishop Peter Kwong -- quit the 55- member drafting committee after Beijing declared martial...