WASHINGTON, June 6, 1989 (UPI) - President Bush won praise from across the political spectrum for his cautious steps in response to the brutal violence in China, but with the plaudits came warnings that tougher actions might be needed soon.

WASHINGTON, June 8, 1989 (UPI) -- President Bush, resisting tougher sanctions against Beijing, said it is uncertain who's in charge in China and that when he tried to telephone communist leaders he could not even get through.

BEIJING, June 9, 1989 (UPI) - Senior leader Deng Xiaoping appeared in public Friday for the first time in three weeks, praising the army as a ''steel great wall'' for suppressing the democracy movement and posing with a leadership lineup showing conservatives in clear control.

BEIJING, June 9, 1989 (UPI) - Hard-line Premier Li Peng, apparently in control of the government, appeared in public Thursday for the first time since the bloody suppression of the democracy movement, and authorities signaled the start of a wide-ranging crackdown on students and other activists.

BEIJING, June 10, 1989 (UPI) - China announced Saturday the arrests of more than 400 democracy movement activists in a growing sweep of Beijing and at least five other cities as authorities deported the first foreign journalist since the start of the political crisis.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1989 (UPI) - Protesters were joined by city lawmakers Saturday in a demonstration condemning the China government's military attack last weekend on pro-democracy students in Beijing.

BEIJING, June 13, 1989 (UPI) - Parts of the fabled Forbidden City were reopened to the public Tuesday for the first time since martial law was declared May 20 but a wall of tanks and armored cars still guarded the front of the ancient abode of China's imperial rulers.

TOKYO, June 13, 1989 (UPI) -- Japan, breaking out of its cautious stance over unrest in China, said Tuesday about 2,600 civilians were killed in the army crackdown on the democracy movement and that the government should be ''fully cognizant of the international implications.''

BEIJING, June 14, 1989 (UPI) - The Chinese government, which claimed 300 people died in the military assault on student-led democracy protesters in Beijing last week, Wednesday reduced the death toll to about 200 in its latest account of the bloodshed.

BEIJING, June 14, 1989 (UPI) - The U.S. Embassy opened its visa office Wednesday for the first time in nearly two weeks, drawing a crowd of about 300 Chinese, including some who said they wanted to leave to avoid a widening crackdown on dissent.

BEIJING, June 14, 1989 (UPI) - China accused the United States of invading Chinese sovereignty by harboring a leading dissident and expelled two American journalists Wednesday in the harshest moves of an intensifying diplomatic row with Washington.