He even sees a positive lesson from the Los Angeles unrest because they have led to debates over social problems. “As long as people can express themselves, it’s not like people in China,” Xiong said. “Even though there’s injustice there, they cannot express it at all.” Advertisemen...
“Now enough is enough. The world can no longer passively watch China gradually suck the air out of press freedom in Hong Kong,” Christian Jensen, chief editor of the Danish Politiken newspaper wrote in the front-page letter. “Unfortunately, the last — and perhaps naive — hope was ...
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NATO is to deploy 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles in Europe by 1989, to counter Soviet SS-20 missiles it says are already in place. Latest Western estimates indicate that 414 of the triple-warhead Soviet weapons have been deployed. The NATO weapons have one warhead each. ...
Songs performed for those in attendance at the event that day included “Dancin’ In The Street”, “China Cat Sunflower” into “I Know You Rider”, “Morning Dew”, “Good Lovin'”, “Casey Jones”, a very strong “St. Stephen”, “Not Fade Away”, and more. ...