Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 75 anti-war activists yesterday protested President Reagan's decision to extend draft registration by marching and chanting peacefully in front of the military recruiting office on Tremont St. in downtown Boston...
...sheets of it are slabbed up in front of government buildings and on the "peace line" that separates the Catholic Falls Road from the Protestant Shankill. In the centers of the streets are "dragon's teeth"?huge squares of stone arranged in uneven rows to prevent fast getaways. Downtown in the "control zone," no car may be parked unattended. Solitary figures sit like dolls behind the wheels to prove there is no bomb. Armored personnel carriers, called "pigs" by the children, poke their snouts around corners and lurch out to create sudden roadblocks. The Andersonstown police station, like...
...kidnaping the highest-ranking American official at the Verona headquarters of NATO'S Southern Europe land forces. In the past, the Red Brigades' targets have always been Italians. The only apparently authentic message from the terrorist group was a note labeled "Communique No. 1," found in a downtown Rome trash can after police were directed there by an anonymous phone call. The message made no ransom demands but merely stated that on Dec. 17 an "armed nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people's prison the Yankee pig of the American occupying forces...
...plea for calm was issued by the government in Walesa's name, but few Poles seemed to believe that he had authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
...West German terrorist unit near Heidelberg ambushed an automobile carrying General Frederick Kroesen commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Kroesen escaped with only minor injuries, but U.S. generals in Europe were advised to safeguard themselves. Little was done. Dozier went on living in his top-floor apartment in downtown Verona-the city of blood feuds and doomed love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-in a building without a doorman or even a resident superintendent...