Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you've got so many people congregating in one area, something's bound to happen," Cambridge Police Sergeant David J. Degou said at the Square fight scene. He estimated the crowd dispersed by police...
Harvard and Cambridge police converged on Harvard Square late Friday night to break up a stick-fight, making two arrests and scattering an estimated crowd of 200 brawlers and onlookers...
...Degou said that overall, "very, very few Cambridge people were involved [in the fight]." He said most of the combatants were teenagers from neighboring towns...
...soft levees leading to the town. When tanks do get into position, they are badly exposed and easily crippled by fire from Iranian rocket- propelled grenades. Should the Iraqis succeed in driving the Iranians out of the salt evaporator, notes a Western military observer, "they will have to fight in the ruins of Fao." Once an Iraqi oil-exporting terminal in the gulf, the town is now a collection of bombed-out buildings that serve as perfect cover for the Iranians...
Some of the affected countries are trying to fight back with promotional campaigns. Greece is running a $3 million U.S. video-and-print promotion that stars such non-Hellenic celebrities as Sally Struthers and E.G. Marshall, who proclaim that they are "going home to Greece." A former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S., Ashraf Ghorbal, went on a goodwill tour of six American states last month to boost his country's image among travel writers and politicians. Governments have improved security in recent months, but the displays of armed force in some cases may have frightened off more tourists than terrorists...