Word: aves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid a visit to Harvard Square. A game of sorts ensued there; more than 200 people were injured, windows were smashed, stores (including Saks Fifth Avenue on Holyoke St. and the Harvard Pro) two buildings and two police cars were gutted with fire as guerilla warfare invaded Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. Rocks, bottles and the sound of "Street Fighting Man" from a room in Claverly to be sure, rather than M-16s, napalm and black pajamas, but it would do. Tear gas canisters tossed into the Yard--and tossed back--and into Quincy House courtyard. A curfew gave...
...eerie quiet. As I'm walking up the stairs these four guys wearing gas masks rush past me in the other direction and warn me to watch out. 'Jesus, what the hell am I doing here?' I wondered." When Bertagna got outside, lines of police stretched out down Mass Ave, nightsticks in hand, watching, waiting, silent...
They eyed Bertagna suspiciously and told him the only unlocked gate to the locked Yard was the one across from the Union. He walked through a no-man's land on Mass Ave, tightly coiled police to his right, students shouting insults and occasionally throwing missiles to his left. Safely returned to his North Matthews room, Bertagna sat on his fire escape overlooking the Square as the police finally got the order to charge and went after protesters. Police fired tear gas into the Yard and students hurled them back. The whole scene was "an amazing spectacle," Bertagna recalls, "surreal...
Proponents of height-limiting "downzoning" along Mass Ave and adjoining side streets told the council they feared that without it large-scale development would soon destroy old residential neighborhoods...
...Cambridge residents and potential developers will meet this week in an attempt to hammer out an acceptable zoning proposal for the strip of Mass Ave between Harvard and Central Squares...