In the late 1970 s. The world was in turmoil never before had so many people taken to the streets millions of demonstrators demanded more democracy grace of freedom higher wages and world peace. And across the globe women were calling for equal rights. For all these hopes seemed to take a back seat in a world shackled to the ongoing confrontation between the United States and the soviet union. There appeared to be little alternative to the 2 political blocs the cold war has the world firmly in its grip. Place was still feeling the effects of the oil crisis of the ne 970. 00 s. Economic growth had snowed and unemployment was steadily rising. The post will do comes when it. Caught my. Eye was done shopping trip to the United States clearly marked the beginning of the chinese imbalance with the west the best between the 2 coming to spell is of china and the soviet union was now definite. The extensive deployments of somebody a troops along chinas board is were no longer a source of concern for done shopping his focus was now to help his country become the new workshop of the world. With you. Mr president we all have the same feeling that we are carrying out a Historical Mission he shot sino American Relations are at a new starting point so the state of the world is also experiencing a new turning point. Both china and the United States are great nations so the chinese and the americans are great people so we thought it would. Mean that friendly cooperation between our 2 peoples undoubtedly have a positive and far reaching influence on the development of world events he she would be. Happy. I visit was very carefully orchestrated from a substantive point of view and thats really what i was involved in writing briefing papers talking points but you know the trip itself. It was mainly symbolic and you dont shopping didnt need to go to the white house to discuss with president carter we could have found another way to do that the main emphasis was on the pageantry vice premier done shopping and president carter will sign 2 agreements one on science and technology and one on cultural relations. And thanks. Done for being was blunt he was earthy. He spat a lot into. A bowl on his side. He smoked. He cursed he had a way of saying very simply what needed to be said in a way that was that struck home he was famous for is saying he didnt care whether a cat was black or white as long as it could catch rats this was his attitude whatever works so he was. A moderniser of jhana. But an eclectic moderniser he would borrow from anywhere whatever worked was enough for him. But the objective was always to restore chinese wealth power prestige and dignity when he was in washington he was talking about global issues about us china relations about the issues that needed to be smoothed out in order to make normalization happen. As he wandered around the country is he went to the left and then houston and seattle he was meeting with other kinds of people other categories of people well he was talking about trade he was talking about investment so he was pushing those kinds of issues and then when he was with the American People he was trying to convince them that its or make them understand that all communists are not demons. I thank you. Thank you thank. You thank you. Saw Television Coverage i was delighted. It helped we were negotiating with the u. S. Congress. Done shopping putting on a 10 gallon hat at a rodeo made him seem like an ordinary guy the American Public already had 6 years of at least some knowledge of getting choose see on Television Read the newspapers read in Time Magazine and by the way i think done shopping was on the cover of time at least twice which is highly unusual for anyone to be on the cover more than once let alone a communist leader. It wasnt just when he was here that americans were so easily able to say oh yes these are wonderful warm fun people just like us but the Chinese Press was of course controlled by don shopping and it was extolling the virtues of the normalization arrangement with us which was not uncontroversial in china made by the communist Party Propaganda had always portrayed the americans as our enemy and now dont shopping have become a friend of the us so they would help. Maybe the person or status both within the party and the Chinese People was elevated as a result. Done shopping had made the decision that it was ok to show that america was indeed a very advanced country. So in fact this was a very clever policy by dung and to show the people this is what you can have if we change our ways. First i thought when people started to express themselves that it was good all i needed to do was be a bystander but later on people said they would he dont shoppings called to stop speaking out and that was when i thought maybe this is the time to step up and maybe ill lose my head. No i was working primarily at the beijing zoo but we had to cover a range of parks so we were also in charge of tiananmen square. So i saw the big letter dodgeball posters on the democracy wall quite early on british journalist called not nigel wade of the telegraph rang me up and said roger ive been given a tip that theres something interesting. To be seen. On a wall in the center of town i dont read chinese you do will you come with me. I havent yet started to make big character posters from that i was writing on pages like this smaller in size like a normal magazine size page after i finished writing them i would take them to the democracy wall around be early in the morning of the international and there we found a group of young men and women have a overcoats crowding around a wall and with posters with big character posters will be put up. You know where they were already around over one or 200 people crowded around trying to read them those at the back were yelling to those at the front to read them out i was very excited when i saw them and happy. To in the communist party proposed the 4 modernizations my article was called the 5th modernization democracy and if there was no democracy these 4 previous modernizations would not come to fruition and secondly they would do nothing for the people. He put up a poster denouncing going shopping as a swindle and a fraud nobody has defied. A communist leader like that. And cold for a change of political system like that. In the 30 year history of the peoples republic of china. Published change the mood of the democracy wallie in libya the discussion of democracy in criticism of the party became mainstream issues in the peoples opinions on i became increasingly radicalized. After don had made his visit to the United States and come back trying here in the the rest of the Party Started to clamp down on the what was then the Democracy Movement number on march 29th wager being arrested. Britain had faced 3 years of austerity dictated by the International Monetary fund how conscious was the countrys conservative policy that their proposals with a 979. 00 Election Campaign were promises that would be difficult to fulfill between 174978. 00 the average French Worker saw his wages in terms of what they would buy go up by 60 percent in germany the average worker saw his real wages go up by over 92 percent the average attorney and worker saw his real wages go up by over 47 percent meanwhile in britain the average industrial worker has seen his real wages in terms of what they will buy only go up by 16 per cent so you vote labor because you think the party for the working man well thats just a slogan but the point is that millions of your fellow workers are already voting conservative and thats not disloyalty thats commonsense dont just hope for a better life. Vote for one morrison Charles Archer had an agency or a very Brilliant Agency and they were employed by the conservative party to help with the campaign wherever it was we 1st saw such an chattery labor isnt working slogan we would rather disapprove of doing such a thing to do rather good dirty trick where really gentleman english gentleman will be with us all the way weve always had a sense of humor and heaven knows weve needed it lately weve other characteristics to a gift for invention of initiative and for hard work under labor these talents are going to waste because the government takes too much away in texas often you hear people say look how much they have taken from my pay packet so naturally they ask for a bigger pay rises to make up the difference and its not longer what that pushes up prices ask any housewife shell tell you particular because she was a grocers daughter. She was very good at talking about all d that and she had a sort of authority about that and she could remember the price of everything and she was very good Photo Opportunities when she was walking down a street with a shopping bag and arguing with people in the market. Where you should look you know we always talk about the price is often about tax and they usually Say Something like you know its worth any leader seeking to attract votes is going to build on a. Strength they have and to be able to serve and you are one of us if you come from humble backgrounds have you been able to combine your political life with looking after a family running a. Well i mean you do the kitchen here i like cooking and i do the shopping and always a big batch of cooking at the weekend and of course all the parliamentary recess is which coincide with the School Holidays so i can see quite a good bit of the children and take them out and at half time they come up to the house upon these and have lunch with me and she tried to force to get it lower down the register and carry more and she also changed her teeth and i have started and simplified her clothes and so on let me give you my vision some where the head lies the greatness for our country again this i know in my heart no could britain today and you may think that an impossible dream she used her sex very much to do this because she understood that. In a great see it suits the woman stands out but this is the 1st time in our history that a woman could after thursday beholding the highest Political Office in our national life. Its never happened before and i know that despite all the changes in our society so there are some who still feel a little bit uncertain about. Lincoln john one during the Campaign Like heres a well known lost hero to you before him where he would all over for labor we were quite sure of it we didnt know it we suspected it as i had very hoped we might put it round but in fact we lost the general election of 97 arent in 77 or 7 here. I must say only day that we have parliament. But 6 of those theyre doing surely will me over the early forties but together and said it doesnt matter we would be back in 4 years time this woman mrs thatcher composited last should be out in 4 years well see when our mid fortys we will no 15 your cabinet so its spreading out in front of us i but i think i would foolishly optimistic i dont hear any very regular people wear the same respect. Meanwhile in iran Ayatollah Khamenei uses the islamic clergy and their network of mosques to consolidate his grip on the country. The referendum on the establishment of the Islamic Republic was essentially a plebiscite and there was no secret ballots anyone voting against would immediately be labelled as an enemy of the revolution. A lot of people voted because they stamped your Identity Card and they would they were worried about the fact that if they didnt vote they would lose their jobs so 98 percent of the population involved. People differently dont islami the public yes or not they dont we dont telling us that what is the republic. Will mean khamenei was a very skilled strategist consulate that when he came to power he talked about the muslim people. So in his speeches the concept of the people evolved into an idea of simply that a ma a muslim people that term or placed the people the fascist scheme was initiated and that was a little by little the majority little by little except that the poller all go. As an individual they didnt believe on them they were court people off the party of god has followed up at the beginning the people who are packed their women they were on nobodys payroll and they were not on our. Back no 10 on they were paid and some of them were also or was. To look at they sort of committees and all neighborhoods committees of revolutionaries for Islamic Revolution islamists committees and schools and high schools not only universities factories workplaces there was a lot of resistance. And that insistence was broke single women stood up to their original question up there woman who went out we doubted they under street the woman who wore a piece of lipstick the woman who pulled hair she was fighting single handed. I had no problem before with my grandmothers veil. But it was getting so oppressive that i thought to myself i have to resist. And since i am rebellious by nature i didnt wear it over report that it happened that a woman was showing it because of her hair they would pull the scarf down with a safety pin here put it on her forehead for her to learn to observe her face proper. Rule then one day a young man stopped me on the street with a kalashnikov so the 1st thought he was maybe 16 a 16 year old boy and he looked at me with such hatred that he said wheres your veil i told him that it was none of his business laughed and he said oh yes it is and he pointed his gun at me and i thought what the hell is going on here and it was the hatred not the weapon that really struck me that we were still in a time where guns were common place because of the ongoing revolution but the hatred in his eyes thats what did it and i said we are screwed in this country. For you and if and if you 2 dont suppose the executions are started 1st or Must Immediately off that they came to power with executing the shahs General Motors and his supporters and all that and they were a narrative to its shame he did not protest. Until it came to terms of each and every. Opposition person. And for many put everybody that has a small critic on him and his politics they put all of them down. Again to who we were there were days when they killed a 100 people or 200 we were in hiding and in the evening we would read the names and try to find out who we knew or maybe there were people who did not give their names and who were anonymous and were killed for one simple comment came in with the truth when communicating i personally felt that Something Like a stinking wet black blanket like a cloud is spreading over my head our head a long night. Through prayer all over their membership cards though or tonight because yet they feel after. The time that they decided to close the organization we had created that are going or train to my place which they did later on. And they are going on get access to the information of their members like walk to the opposition groups had to make fake documents we changed our identities long i fled from city to city from one neighborhood to the next we were living in the underground. You see when i came back. To my apartment it was something around noon and all of the sudden i heard someone knocked my door and it was one of my beloved neighbor and she told me that come out come out they were here and just now they left here you should you should leave you should leave and in one minute actually came out and only id remember or anything i did choose my shoes. And then i try to put on other clothes and. Another dress and i went out and i never been back to the my apartment i went to. Dressed as a kurdish. Woman because that was the only time i walked away i had to cross the border illegally i met the people that did this. It was actually unexpected the some of them unbelievable helpful and some of them they did everything to save us although they were the drug dealer i was given and. As everybody had to be over it was a small machine gun its called the u. C. From then on we lived on in tents i was there for one year and 10 months. Began to realize that the plans made at the conference at the beginning of the year when not having the desired effect the elderly cleric there allowed to take the place of the shah had neither re stabilized iran nor preserved western interests. Ayatollah khamenei became the wests bogeyman and a fear of islamic fundamentalism would soon begin to spread its message and what many would see as a clash of civilizations and then a fear of islam itself which became the new epitome of evil. d following the 1st oil crisis and 973. She emerged as an invaluable and inexhaustible alternative to counter fluctuating prices on the global oil market. French television at the time broadcast promotional films featuring a background of Music Nuclear energy was acclaimed as the product of human effort and intelligence and the perfect triumph of mankind over. The us. It was a dream that would become a nightmare on march 28th 1979. The partial meltdown of the 3 mile island reactor led to what is still the most Serious Nuclear accident in american history. Fearing the release of radioactive gases the authorities evacuated pregnant women and children within a radius of 8 kilometers around the plant 200000 people fled the region. Ultimately the reactance 3rd layer of protection held firm and the meltdown was contained although president carter did not want to abandon the Nuclear Program the near disaster did much to erode american faith in atomic energy. In west germany the accident brought together a mixture of anti new care activists pacifists feminists as well as protestant and catholic members of the Peace Movement the united their hopes and utopian ideas in a political pro environment movement. When we became aware of the accid