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...tense early-morning hours of June 4, hope died and fear was born. Thousands of combat troops stormed Tiananmen Square, transforming the Woodstock-like encampment of young students calling for democracy into the bloodiest killing ground in Communist China's history. The images of defiance and devastation, the voices of determination and despair, shook the world. Here, protesters attacked troops with poles and rocks. There, a student lurched, his dazed face soaked with blood. Everywhere, the bodies fell, how many is still not known, while fires blazed, signaling the dawn of China's uncertain new world...
Dressed in combat fatigues and a bomber jacket, Cuban-born Pedro Rene Comas- Banos apparently slipped past American Airlines security in Los Angeles International Airport on Memorial Day weekend carrying a starter's pistol, two knives and a pair of scissors. Soon after, he forced a Miami-bound 727 to head for Havana. Pleading that the plane was running out of fuel, the pilot landed in Florida, where, after 90 minutes of negotiation with the FBI, the hijacker surrendered...
...Offer to reduce the number of "combat aircraft" -- for the moment a term left carefully undefined -- and helicopters to 15% below current NATO levels. This is a major U.S. concession, since NATO has steadfastly refused to discuss aircraft reductions. Under the Bush proposal, all aircraft (and other equipment) taken out of service would be destroyed...
...ceiling of 275,000 each for U.S. and Soviet troops in Europe. That would require a cut of 30,000 soldiers for the U.S. -- 10% of overall strength or, as Bush pledged, 20% of combat troops. The Soviets would have to slash their troop strength nearly in half. All soldiers sent home would be demobilized. As with aircraft, the U.S. had previously refused even to consider troop cuts, claiming they were unverifiable...
Trying to combat what they said were misperceptions about the department's vitality, administrators and the department's chair, Werner Sollors, made a concerted effort to publicize the possibility of Nellie Y. McKay's arrival at Harvard...