China orders shoot on sight for dissidents amid crackdown
The government broadcasts reveal details of detained demonstrators while officials claim arrests of counter revolutionaries. Li Shuscan and spouse seek asylum as U S China talks continue with Baker and Han Xu, with evacuations of Americans by CAAC and Dragonair planes.
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Li Shuscan
Pha
Fang
Voice of America
Beymer
State Department
Wv Hutter
China
U.S
Washington
James A. Baker II
Han Xu
White House
Baker
CAAC
Wuhan
Hubei Province
Hong Kong
Dragonair
Canada
Tralian
Liaoning Province
Consumers to help pay for cleaner air plan
A proposal would require 107 plants in 19 states to cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 1993 for a 5 million ton reduction. Dunkirk and two Upstate NY Electric & Gas plants face initial limits, with broader cuts 1995–2000. Utilities may use technology, scrubbers, coal with low sulfur, or buy rights. Niagara Mohawk seeks time to study.
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Dunkirk
New York
Tate Electric & Gas
Niagara Mohawk
Stephen Brady
Sit-in by students supports Chinese protesters at school
Adams Central School hosts a silent sit-in by about 100 high school art students in five groups. They display a life size Tiananmen massacre mural and wooden Chinese soldier silhouettes to protest Beijing violence. A slide show and posters accompany the event as students say they care and want awareness.
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Shevalter
Thomas Shultz
Adams
Hnch
Tiananmen Square
South Jefferson High School
Beijing
Shevalier
China
Tina Whiting
Todd Shultz
Deng era crackdown echoes Cultural Revolution era
Chinese leaders linked to current crackdown fear a new cultural purge as rhetoric of counterrevolutionaries resurfaces. Deng Xiaoping’s government leverages propaganda, mobilizes troops, and stages demonstrations to quell pro democracy protests, with dissidents like Fang Lizhi seeking asylum.
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Enhounter
China
Deng Xiaoping
Ins
Mlitary
Deng
Student Movement
Tiananmen Square
SU Student Won't Return to Shanghai
Qing Zhu, a 26 year old physics doctoral candidate at Syracuse University, plans to stay in the United States after leaving Shanghai four years ago. He contrasts democracy in the U S with China, worries about family in Shanghai, and reflects on participating in student activism there.
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Shanghai
United States
Syracuse University
Qing Zhu
Qing
Tiananmen
China
East China Normal University
Bush plan targets nine cities for urban ozone reduction
President Bush promotes a clean air package to curb smog with a phased auto fuel shift. Sen. Alfonso D Amato and Rep. Sherwood Boehlert back stronger acid rain measures as Congress weighs this year. Local figures praise the plan as a bold step toward cleaner Syracuse air.
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Sherwood Boehlert
New Hartford
Congress
House Energy and Commerce Committee
John Dingell
D-Mich
Energy and Commerce Committee
Boehrert
House
Teton Science School
Grand Teton National Park
Alfonso D'Amato
Rn.y
Richard Fedele
Skaneateles
The
Sierra Club
Atlantic
Syracuse
Fedele
West Germans greet Gorbachev during Bonn visit
Thousands of Bonn residents cheered Mikhail Gorbachev on the second day of his visit as he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl prepared to sign a joint declaration. The crowd waved Soviet flags and banners urging German unity and peace, while some criticized Bonn as merely the temporary capital. Gorbachev welcomed U S proposals to cut conventional forces on the continent.
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West Germany
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kremlin
Gorbachev
NATO
Moscow
U.S
Gorby
Berlin
Europe
Berlin Wall
Helmut Kohl
Civil rights advocates seek congressional aid after court rulings
Civil rights advocates urged Congress to act as the Supreme Court curbed minority use of statistics in discrimination claims. The rulings, backed by Reagan era appointees, drew strong dissent from Justice Stevens and sympathy from other justices. Critics warned of harsher litigation against employers and urged legislative fixes.
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Supreme Court
Don Edwards
D-Calif
House
Subcommittee
Eric Schnapper
27Th Army
Democracy Movement
China
Paul Sprenger
John Paul Stevens
Tae Hee
Scalia
Kenndy
O'Connor
Rehnquist
White
High Court
Sprenger
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