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Article: Chinese Troops Begin Pullback From Beijing;Premier's Position Said to Weaken in In Power Struggle
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- The Washington Post
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- May 22, 1989
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The Chinese army began withdrawing from two locations outside
Beijing early this morning as an apparent plan to enter the city to
quell a popular uprising appeared to collapse in the face of growing
civil unrest and a high-level power struggle within the government.
Army trucks loaded with troops turned around and began to pull
back from two locations, one seven miles south and the other ten
miles southwest of the city, where they had been immobilized by
thousands of students supported by citizens.
It was not immediately known whether troops elsewhere around the
city were in retreat, but the withdrawal from the two key locations
seemed to indicate the failure of Premier Li Peng's plan to ...