Geography Reference
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Cardinal Principles forbidding any opposition to the Communist Party
were correct (Yu and Harrison 1990, 34). The government then made
mass arrests of several thousand people. Some of themwere givenmock
trials and shot in the back of the head. By mid-July the government had
issued nationwide arrest warrants for the student ringleaders, but many
managed to escape to the West with the help of Chinese sympathizers.
Among them were Chai Ling, who entered Princeton, and Wuer Kaixi,
who went to Harvard.
