Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, public opinion in Peru seemed to back President Alan Garcia Perez's bold decision to let the armed forces crush three coordinated prison rebellions, although at least 250, and possibly 400, radical inmates were killed. Last week the President again put his popularity on the line. Facing % the gravest crisis of his eleven months in office, Garcia said in a televised address that paramilitary police at one prison massacred some 30 to 40 inmates who had already surrendered. All of the victims belonged to the Maoist- oriented Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas, who have been waging a terrorist campaign...
...example, the Indonesian tropical garden visited this spring by President Reagan and the world. Every intruder on the island quickly registers its palm- fringed beaches, magical dances and golden native beauties out of Gauguin and then remarks that all these delights are being corrupted by a camera- toting crush of alien surfers, satyrs and souvenir hunters. The single most changeless feature of Bali, indeed, is this litany of laments. " 'Isn't Bali spoiled,' is invariably the question that greets the returned traveler," wrote Miguel Covarrubias. That was in 1937. "This nation of artists is faced with the Western invasion...
...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
...week. Many Kiev passengers were arriving to join families for Friday celebrations of Victory Day, a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know whether it will be safe for them to return." She added, "Most...
...Harvard band "Bored of Education" seeks to crush its MIT, Brandeis, and Boston University opponents tonight, during the second-annual Intercollegiate Battle of the Bands...