Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUNE 1969: Terrorists fire-bombed 13 Buenos Aires supermarkets controlled by the Rockefeller family. Labor Leader August Timoteo Van-dor, boss of the huge metallurgical workers union in Argentina, was assassinated by five gunmen in downtown Buenos Aires...
...trouble began two years ago when Robinson's eldest child, Sue, then 17, took to things like going downtown barefoot and mixing on the fringes of the drug-rock scene. Despite the family's supposed closeness, Sue began drifting away. She scorned values that Robinson took for granted. She accused her father of "just not listening," he recalls, "and I would say, 'The hell I'm not. I understand.' She was right...
...During the next several days, blacks hit a number of carefully selected targets, some of which were distant from the black community. The targets included the Model Cities headquarters, the Masonic Temple (a gathering place for local black bourgeoisie), houses owned by ghetto slumlords, and some stores in the downtown area including a food wholesale shop which was burned to the ground...
...restrictions on ashes disposal. If the state assembly and Governor Reagan agree, Californians will soon be free to scatter the charred remains of friends from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a favorite ocotillo plant in the Mojave Desert, or even at a freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles...
...NIGHT before the burial Anthony's friends gather at a tavern in downtown St. Louis. Anthony had no trouble making friends, he had achieved the goal of being well-liked, so there are many people who have drifted here to honor Anthony as best they can, by celebrating his life...