Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Troops ringing city attempt to move in on Tiananmen demonstrators. Over 1.25 million workers take to the streets to prevent soldiers from reaching the square. The army again withdraws from the city...
April 27: More than 150,000 student protesters defy direct Party order and march through streets of downtown Beijing. Crowds of cheering workers ignore police and prevent soldiers from approaching students...
...June 4, 1989, crackdown surprised and shocked the world. At the time it seemed almost incomprehensible that the government chose to massacre its own people, especially since millions of ordinary citizens had filled the streets of Beijing in the previous weeks to prevent the army from reaching the protesters...
...possibility of 1960s-style racial rioting, Dinkins had waited until May 11 to deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
...sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a priest in 1986 but was released because of his high connections. Kuchchi Devi lamented last week that she was weary of having her tragedy exploited by politicians. Said she: "I have become a plaything" -- the very outcome her husband died trying to prevent...