Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case involved Gregory ("Joey") Johnson, 32, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, who torched an American flag outside the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you," chanted the crowd. Until now, despite the frequency with which the flag had been burned at antiwar rallies in the 1960s and '70s, the Supreme Court had avoided a direct ruling on whether the Government could prohibit such acts...
...cameras possess night vision, which enabled them to record the bloody fighting along the major streets leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
...Nagy and four of his top aides were executed in 1958 after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once and for all a tragic, painful epoch to be able to open a new page in the history of our nation...
While the Ayatullah's body lay in state inside a refrigerated glass box, the crowd of mourners in Tehran became so thick that eight were reportedly crushed to death. The next day, as a helicopter brought the open wooden coffin containing Khomeini's remains to the city's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, nearly a million mourners thrust forward in the blistering heat and choking dust, many wailing and pounding their heads as they groped to touch the body and snatch a piece of the linen burial shroud...
Some five hours passed before there was another, successful attempt to deliver the body to its final resting place, this time encased in a metal coffin. Again arms flailed and chants of "Death to America!" filled the air as the helicopter touched down. Although barricades held most of the crowd at bay, the Guards were forced to make a frantic push past the outstretched hands to deliver the coffin to the grave site. At the last instant, the metal lid of the casket was ripped off, and the body was rolled into the grave, in keeping with an Islamic tradition...