Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier state of siege, imposed after an outbreak of street demonstrations in late 1984, lasted for six months. It ended only when the U.S. threatened to block new multilateral loans to Chile. This time, the regime will have to consider what impact the state of siege may have on Pope John Paul II's planned visit in April. In predominantly Roman Catholic Chile, where even many Marxists declare themselves Christians, the papal trip is anticipated with uncommon fervor. But the Vatican has let it be known that a state of siege would not be an appropriate atmosphere for a papal...
...past year alone, the Harvard administration's insensitivity to the critical shortage of housing in Cambridge has become all too apparent. One block away from Leverett House, for instance, stands a church-owned parking lot which the University plans to lease to build student dormitories. Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely proposed that Harvard lease the land, satisfy its own housing needs, and then set aside a portion for homeless families and a center for socially-concerned students...
After half a block, there was indeed a bus stop. The KGB man leaped aboard a trolley as the door was starting to close. As it pulled away, the journalists caught a glimpse of the agent's face peering through a frost- rimmed window, pop-eyed with terror. He had been as frightened as the reporters...
...whopping 72% of people questioned in a New York Times/CBS News poll published last week said they would be willing to be tested. But there is fierce opposition too, and not all of it from professional civil libertarians. The union representing 1,500 Boston policemen has filed suit to block a plan by Commissioner Francis Roache to begin unannounced random tests of all cops, on the grounds that the tests would violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches...
Suddenly the pious atmosphere was shattered. Two young men who had been loitering outside, posing as tourists, pulled out Polish-made submachine guns and shot the custodian at the gate. Shouting in Arabic, they burst into the sanctuary, dropped an iron bar across the door to block it and, standing ten yards apart, began strafing the congregation. Shopkeepers nearby, just opening their stores or stalls for business, listened in horror to the rattle of gunfire and the screams of the dying. "I heard gunshots," said one bystander. "Then I saw a young man with injured feet come out yelling...