Word: caledones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Cape Town itself, chanting slogans and singing as a pink police helicopter, fluttering overhead like a nervous butterfly, radioed the throng's progress ahead to headquarters. Hastily, platoons of troops took position outside Parliament, where the legislators were debating. Carrying no weapons, the throng demonstrated peacefully before Caledon Square police station, where a local batch of leaders had been locked up. Then, to the relief of the platoons of police troops standing ready to fire, the mob disappeared. But police radios crackled with news that the same thing was occurring in other towns on the cape-in Somerset...