Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco assassin! Franco assassin!" chanted throngs of demonstrators, marching through the streets of Paris in the French capital's most violent rioting since 1968. In Rome, thousands of protesters swarmed through the downtown area shouting, "Free Spain! Free Spain!" In Brussels, angry mobs fire-bombed the Spanish embassy. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party announced a resolution of "total condemnation." In Amsterdam, the Dutch government declared a day of "national demonstration," and government ministers joined protest marches. From one end of Europe to the other, anti-Spanish demonstrations flared...
...same publication. Best of all was that rural passion for personal signs--dozens of them, informing people not to throw cigarettes down the toilets (ashtray provided), not to run the water too long, quiet hours 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., bingo, if you're interested, at a location in downtown Rhinelander. All very polite and designed to be helpful, please, please, please. Then the newspaper clippings, yelowing with age, in the main picturing grinning and slightly embarrassed men furling out large fish caught in the area. In the center of all the clips was the shining star in this institution...
Police took a 45-year-old woman, identified as Sarah Jane Moore, into custody after she allegedly fired a shot at Ford as he left the downtown hotel where he had delivered two speeches earlier...
...months ago, CIA Director William Colby told the White House he had learned that someone had hidden away -presumably for future use-small amounts of the cobra and shellfish toxins at an agency lab in downtown Washington. The White House informed the Church committee, which this week will hold public hearings on the matter. Church hopes to discover whether the toxins were ever used in CIA assassination plots. He is even more concerned with the fact that the agency violated Nixon's command. The episode, he said, points up a "looseness of command and control within the CIA." According...
...digging into Butte itself. First opened just to the south of the city, the ever-growing Berkeley pit has swallowed neighborhoods with names like Dublin Gulch and Sin Town; since 1970, it has devoured most of the city's residential McQueen section. Currently, it is chewing away at downtown Butte. Meanwhile, a second pit, begun in 1973, has destroyed the Columbia Gardens amusement center and the city's only sizable park. With the remaining ore reserves due to run out in a decade, the next step would be to dig into the rest of the mineral-rich hill...