Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...government tolerated the occupation for nearly two months, but last week it lost first its patience and then much of its credibility. Just before dawn on Wednesday, more than 1,000 riot police poured into the square, setting fire to the tents of hunger strikers and beating 100 dissidents. Within hours thousands of protesters armed with clubs and petrol bombs were battling police throughout the city. As black smoke rose over Bucharest, Iliescu appeared on television to appeal for support against "a fascist rebellion...
...WATCHED REDS? Remember Zhao Ziyang, former general secretary of China's Communist Party? He was last seen in public on May 19, 1989, during a tearful meeting with student hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square. Then came the crackdown and Zhao's expulsion from the party. Friends now report that Zhao is at peace with his current situation. Small wonder. He may have lost his chauffeured Mercedes 500, but he still has a staff of five aides and an assigned Nissan that comes with, yes, a mini-bar. Zhao seldom leaves his house, spending most of his days reading and watching...
...party headed by Rehavam Ze'evi, who is demanding the sensitive post of Police Minister as the price for his support. Ze'evi informed the Knesset last week, "Arabs only understand when they are clubbed on the head." Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, one of 46 Palestinians who launched a hunger strike to protest last week's killings, was no more encouraging in his assessment of the situation. "This is our last attempt to defend our program of nonviolence," said Husseini. "If it fails, the consequences will be terrible...
When sociologist Zhou Duo heard that the tanks were rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, where he had been on a hunger strike to show solidarity with the students, his first thought was to wave a white flag. But he dismissed the idea as ignoble. Instead, Zhou, 43, and popular singer Hou Dejian approached the oncoming soldiers and negotiated an agreement that allowed the demonstrators to withdraw peacefully...
...Guard credentials are impeccable -- he was among China's early revolutionaries -- he advocated free-market reforms and was a close ally of Zhao Ziyang's. Last year, when the demonstrations in Beijing sparked sympathy protests in Hong Kong, Xu shook hands with some of the hunger strikers who gathered outside his office building...