Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators, chanting "Munch, Munch, Eat the rich" and "Gerry you jerk Give us work," attempted to intercept the presidential motorcade on Storrow Drive, as it approached the science museum, but were blocked by a cordon of police several yards from the road...
Half an hour later, Ford's motorcaravan arrived in suburban Skokie (pop. 66,200) and pulled up before the 13-story North Shore Hilton. Half of the city's 61-man police force joined the cordon of Secret Service agents protecting the hotel. To help out, a dozen men who had been fired from the force in a contract dispute last summer joined their former colleagues on guard. About 500 of the city's residents stood shivering in the night outside the hotel when Ford arrived, and he waved for about 30 seconds to acknowledge their cheers...
Meanwhile, another Secret Service agent shouted: "Let's go!" The command was a signal to tell other agents in the area that Ford was in danger. Swiftly, a cordon of men formed around the shaken President. Two agents pulled down on his suit jacket, forcing the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Ford to bend so that he was partially concealed by the group. Then, moving at a brisk walk, the party swept through the park past the startled spectators and into the safety of the capitol...
...been trying to achieve detente between South Africa and Black Africa. The black states, he hoped, would countenance continued white rule in South Africa in return for his country's aid and technology. With the collapse of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique and Angola, Vorster realized that his cordon sanitaire of white-ruled states was disintegrating. He also realized that South Africa could hardly afford to prop up the Smith regime in the event of an all-out racial war in Rhodesia. Accordingly, he ordered the last of some 2,000 South African paramilitary police out of Rhodesia...
...several. Two days later, troops dispatched to protect Communist headquarters there opened fire and killed two people, a 34-year-old rightist militant and a 19-year-old male nurse named Luis Barroso, a member of the centrist Popular Democrats. Furious, hundreds of anti-Communists broke through an infantry cordon and ransacked the building...