Article: CHINA: GREENPEACE PROTEST -- A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME

Rajiv Chandra
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-16-1995
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (IPS) -- A brief protest staged here by the
environmental group Greenpeace today has given China a taste of
things to come when thousands of international activists arrive
for the upcoming United Nations women's conference.
Five activists led by Thilo Bode, executive director of
Greenpeace International, unfurled a five-meter-long yellow banner
under Chairman Mao Zedong's portrait in Tiananmen Square.
Plainclothes policemen immediately grabbed and tore away the
banner, which read "Stop All Nuclear Testing" in Chinese and
English and listed the five major nuclear powers: the United
States, Russia, France, Britain ...

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