Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaching San Francisco, Mitterrand stole a few hours for an impromptu walk downtown with his wife Danielle. Disconcerted Secret Service escorts balefully followed the French couple up and down steep Chinatown streets, and were almost as shocked as the waiters when Mitterrand dropped into Scott's Seafood Grill for a late-night snack. Ceremony was restored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who feted Mitterrand at a city hall gala. He smiled stoically as an Army brass band oompahed its way through La Marseillaise, then beamed when Violinist Isaac Stern took the podium...
...street demonstrations produced considerable violence but only a few casualties. When hundreds of rock-throwing students tried to rally in downtown Santiago, police dispersed them with water cannons, tear gas and clubs. By the end of the week, seven demonstrators had died, about 30 had been wounded and 400 had been arrested in eight cities. Police and soldiers did not roam the streets shooting and clubbing protesters at random, as they had done during the past five protests since last spring. Still, the death toll from all these demonstrations stands high...
...also had to think about all the scenic spots that you would be driving through on your way there. In Baltimore for instance, they've taken three downtown blocks, picked up the trash, planted a few trees and called it urban redevelopment. No need for travelers checks here. In Kentucky they have caves. "Come see the fantastic Frankfort caves!" Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend my vacation than crawling around in a cave. Signs everywhere tell you to watch out for the scorpions. Someone in the back of the tour group always reminds you, "They...
...depleted ranks on the East Coast did no such thing. They poured into downtown Georgetown and stopped traffic on M. St, their equivalent of Mass Ave., they banged kitchen utensils for a full five minutes after the final buzzer, they set off fireworks, and they decorated many of the campus frees with toilet paper and other paper products...
Groups of up to 150 people began to gather ominously in the Plaza Dos de Mayo in downtown Lima last Thursday at the headquarters of various left-wing political and union organizers. Over loudspeakers, union leaders exhorted the crowds with revolutionary slogans. Leaflets passed out by the Peruvian Communist Party protested hunger and misery and stated the party's demands for job stability and the control of fuel and food prices. In one shantytown south of the city, small bands of youths flung rocks at bus windows. Almost all of Peru's privately owned buses stayed...