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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev's goals in the election was to get people engaged in his reforms. He did, with a vengeance. Despite 71 years without practice, Soviets plunged into the fray of open democracy. "We intellectuals always saw % ourselves as the symbol of democracy but thought the people weren't ready for it," says Andrei Voznesensky, a noted Soviet poet. "The joyful thing about all this is that in many ways we have been proved wrong...
Speakers tried to dispel the image that allstudent activists have become stockbrokers andlawyers. "We weren't crazy then, and we haven'tsold out now," said Summers. "Each of us hascontinued in our own lives to organize forchange... We saw in 1969 what collective actioncan achieve...
...really went well," Harvard Co-Captain Kathy Mulvehal said. "We started off pretty shaky in doubles. We weren't playing aggressively at first. I think we took them for granted. But everyone turned it around and played really well in singles...
...Epps concedes that the students weren't the only ones to use militant tactics--the police, too, were violent in making the arrests when they broke into University Hall in the early morning hours of April...
When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...