Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suicide squads lobbed Molotov cocktails, paving stones and sticks at the invaders. Hungarian patriots, some as young as 13, were cut down in hails of automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more than a week the Hungarian dream of independence was over. A puppet government headed by Janos Kadar, 44, set about "normalizing" the country through executions, show trials and brutal repression. The purge made Kadar the most hated...
...been a little better than nine years since these women began their weekly marches outside Government House in downtown Buenos Aires to demand information on their "disappeared" children. For the first six years, when a ruthless military dictatorship ruled the land, they were ridiculed as "the Crazy Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" because they weren't silent like all the rest. For the last three years, in which Argentina has enjoyed a return to democratic rule, the mothers of the plaza have continued to don their characteristic white kerchiefs to issue more broad (some will say more ill-defined...
Still, employees at Southern's handsome brick headquarters in downtown San Francisco were hardly despondent. The two companies had planned to merge their headquarters in Chicago and lay off most of Southern's corporate staff...
...crosses Chile, the usual truck traffic was missing, and the few cars on the road had to dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...
...Thailand's idyllic Phuket Island, where more than 300,000 visitors annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...