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Go ahead, quick. I was going say its easier to be ignorant and reliant than it is to be responsible and informed. How do you change that . Well, one of the things we are going to have to do, and i dont have a lot of time to get into it, but we have to use technology. Theres some wonderful ways we can use that. Virtual classrooms, it can help us enormously. Im working on that project with something in baltimore right now. Of your scholarship fund. Carsons scholars. Org. Everyone get involved. [ap...

Aerospace command has confirmed that this blimp called jlens came loose from its tether rope at Aberdeen Proving Grounds a military facility just north of washington, d. C. , this morning. It was on a tether. This is a system theyre testing out there. Its full of radar equipment to test its ability to identify unidentified aircraft, cruise missiles, but it came loose. Now this blimp filled with helium is flying north. It is now over pennsylvania, we are told. Two f16s in the air. They were scram...

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The government and took to the streets of beijing demanding democratic reform. >> in beijing, demonstrations grow and grow and grow to the point where they reach a couple million people. and in the middle of all this, in comes mikhail gorbachev. this was going to be a visit in which the chinese communist party hoped to improve its relations with the soviets. >> as the sun rose here, it was clear that the chinese students protests for democracy is still gaining strength and urgency. students are ...

>> in china today change in democracy was the issue. more than 100,000 people defied the government and took to the streets demanding democratic reform. >> in beijing, demonstrations grow and grow and grow to the point where they reach a couple million people. and in the middle of all this, in comes mikhail gorbachev. this was going to be a visit in which the chinese communist party hoped to improve its relations with the soviets. >> as the sun rose here, it was clear the chinese students protes...

Ducked questions on chinas student issue. i cannot be the judge, he said. >> in china tonight, the government declared martial law in central beijing. ominously foreign journalists face severe new restrictions that amount to a news blackout. >> theres chaos in tiananmen square. there are bodies and injured and dead all over the place, and there is no way to ascertain for sure how many people have been killed or wounded. >> china is now restored into a deeply repressive leninist regime. its a que...

Thank you all for being here. first of all, this is amazing. tell me why it was important for you to be here. >> because first off im a student and also im a black student. being here with all these other students im not only like showing my support im also showing the nation that this is not just a white student issue. this effects everyone. i definitely have to be here to show that student voices matter. >> its interesting because one of the students from parkland made the point that 25% of th...

Name of democracy was the issue. more than 100,000 defy the government, took to the streets demanding democratic reform. >> in beijing, demonstrations grow and grow and grow to the point where they reach a couple million people. and in the middle of all this, in comes mikhail gorbachev. this was going to be a visit in which the chinese communist party hoped to improve its relations with the soviets. >> as the sun rose, it was clear the chinese students protests for democracy is still gaining str...