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...Peking marched through the streets waving banners vaguely demanding "freedom" and % "democracy." And day after day the central government in Peking reacted with total silence, blacking out all news of the protests. Then, last week, the government finally decided how it would handle the largest outbreak of youthful unrest in China in a decade. When Peking finally spoke, its tone was at once threatening and conciliatory...
Less than 48 hours later, all public demonstrations were banned in Peking, as they had been a few days earlier in Shanghai. With that, the engine of student unrest began to sputter, though at week's end thousands of students took to the streets of Nanjing to protest the government actions. The ongoing demonstrations presented the government with one of its toughest political tests in recent years. The question: Could the Deng regime keep its promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding...
...past the Deng government has been able to suppress student unrest with a minimum of violence by using the worst threat at its disposal: assignment upon graduation to an uninteresting job in a remote location. But as the last month's events have suggested, some seem willing to risk even a promising future. "Somebody has to do it," says a recent Peking University graduate. "The fate of the country is at stake." The demonstrations, he added, "will eventually be viewed as a boon to history because they are keeping our leaders on their toes, forcing them to speed...
...been banned, held in solitary confinement for months at a time, restricted and sent into domestic exile. During that time she has developed into a combative leader in her own right. Her public appearances regularly set off huge dancing demonstrations, and at the funerals of blacks killed in racial unrest, she is often carried on the shoulders of singing youths. Winnie claims she only "deputizes" for her husband, and says, "The Afrikaner has made me what I am. The Afrikaner has made each and every black politician in this land...
...plight of the press in South Africa was already bad enough. Ever since June, journalists had been prohibited from visiting trouble spots. Newspapers had been prevented from publishing photographs of unrest or reporting "subversive" statements by anyone advocating strikes, boycotts or other disruptive activity. Despite such limitations, however, the foreign press still managed to print a good deal about events in South Africa, and domestic publications continued to run critical editorials and articles...