Word: weis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ren Wanding [head of the Chinese Human Rights League], Wei Jingsheng, Fu Yuehua, Chen Lu, Zhang Wenhe and others were arrested in March 1979, the event was followed closely by the Chinese and foreign press. Why this concern about the fate of a few ordinary Chinese citizens? It is because the arrests had created a cold March wind that was blowing across the Chinese political horizon...
...Wei, a press officer on leave from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, stressed that international relations deserve as much attention as domestic affairs. He said the United States and his country "both have a lot to learn" and can eliminate decades of hostility by open discussion...
...circulation of only 1,000 before publication was suspended early last year, it was, according to one Western diplomat, "a twinkle in a vast void." Thus the arrests of Xu and Yang further weakened an already anemic democratic movement. It has been on the retreat since Dissident Leader Wei Jingsheng was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in October 1979, two months before the Democracy Wall was stripped clean and put off-limits...
...soaps, is simplicity itself. Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines), a good girl from the bad side of nowhere, comes to Truro, a small Florida town. There she attracts the attentions of both Sam Curtis (John Beck), a tomcatting entrepreneur, and Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen...
...major is very unstructured right now--we are pretty much on our own in choosing our program of study," Natasha Wei '82, a concentrator, said yesterday. "The problem is they (department officials) haven't clearly stated anywhere what courses they expect us to take," she added...