... light and darkness. Student demonstrators swore an oath to die rather than retreat Ominously for the leaders, reports from some cities showed signs of a linkup between students and workers. The firestorm of opposition at home and abroad heightened the regime's sense of being under siege. In the last days of May there was one final, unexpected flash of hope. Demonstrations wound down ... had been enough to solve the problem. But some campuses generated calls for a nationwide movement of peaceful resistance, and a hard core of students newly arrived in Beijing from the provinces insisted t...

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