Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film from a three-man team of photographers were being flown to Seoul, about four hours away. After telephone discussions with Richer, Moyer and TIME Photographer Ed Kim selected the photos that most dramatically illustrated what was happening in the Philippine capital. Then in a photo lab in downtown Seoul, Moyer, Kim and a team of technicians began the high-tech wizardry of transmitting the color photos to New York City...
...blizzard of ticker tape fell from the skies, Peru's most famous novelist stepped onto a rickety stage in downtown Lima. Before him, a crowd of 25,000 waved red-and-white Peruvian flags and chanted "Libertad! Libertad!" ("Freedom! Freedom!"). They then began to shout his name: "Mario! Mario! Mario...
...bank in the southeastern city of Nijmegen. The squatters battled police for the better part of a day, injuring 19 officers and causing $2 million in damage. The country was shocked by the realization that for several hours it was the krakers, not the authorities, who controlled the downtown of a major city. In the ensuing wave of indignation, politicians clamored for new laws against squatting...
...tell me what went wrong," asks Jonas Walker, 33, at the end of another long summer's day of hanging out on a street corner in Liberty City, a ghetto north of downtown Miami. "We got civil rights, we got welfare," he says. "But look around here." For emphasis, he kicks at a pile of empty beer cans littering the sidewalk. A high school dropout, Walker gave up his last job, bagging groceries, two years ago. "When I was growing up in Mississippi, we were poor all right, but we didn't have the madness," Walker recalls...
Noriega's major move was a police raid on the offices of the National Civic Crusade, the coalition of 107 community organizations that has staged daily street demonstrations in the capital. Plainclothes government agents burst into the Crusade offices in downtown Panama City and hauled off boxes of documents. Then, at a dramatic midnight news conference, Attorney General Carlos Villalaz announced that the papers outlined a plot to dissolve the 67- member legislature and hand over power to a civilian junta. Authorities issued arrest warrants for six Crusade leaders, accusing them of conspiracy to overthrow the government. The sextet went...