Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Death gangs run by the security forces are more visible in the countryside, where, as in Metalio, they can brutalize an entire town. Rivas and his men allegedly don civilian clothes and masks before conducting a nighttime hit, while other times they show up at a house in broad daylight and full uniform to take someone away for "questioning." A favorite dumping ground is a shallow estuary near by, but sometimes the burial technique is grislier. Several heads were once discovered stuffed in cloth bags and neatly aligned in a field, while the bodies were scattered around the town. Rivas...
...contras told TIME'S Jon Anderson, who accompanied the assault group, that prior to their daylight attack San Juan del Norte had been hit by gunfire from the sea. At one point in the fighting, the contras said, they used mortars to drive away a Nicaraguan patrol boat accompanied by two fishing trawlers. The rebel commander said one of the boats had later been sunk and that "your countrymen did it." According to the A.R.D.E. officer, the feat was accomplished by a small boat launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have...
...blockade was in place even before daylight broke over the smokestacks of Lorraine. Gangs of workers erected more than 120 barricades of coiled sheet steel throughout that eastern region, sealing off the major towns and shutting the border crossings to West Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Factories were idled; stores, banks and public offices were closed and shuttered. In Nancy 10,000 marchers took to the streets, in Longwy 15,000, in Metz 20,000. In a dramatic climax to nearly a week of unrest, the entire region was delivering an ultimatum to President François Mitterrand: repeal a draconian...
...have the necessary dignity and grandeur, an entrance hall requires daylight. It also requires a marker, a visible symbol. Says Pei: "You can't just walk down as into a subway. The Louvre needs something prestigious." The idea of putting glass over the entrance took care of the daylight, but the glass needed a shape...
...able to keep the information within ourselves--and avoid the leaks Now we have virtually arrested the drug traffic on Sonoma Street," he adds. According to Wall. as recently as last summer "there were stores. that everyone knew about. where owners were selling drugs across the counter in broad daylight to children. as bold as can be" Such stores have virtually disappeared. he says...