Word: gist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene was an African version of Guernica. A tape recorder played a screeching sound track of an air attack and gunshots. Students acted out people being hit from the air and falling dead; others played comrades who picked up the wounded. There was an impassioned song, the gist of its message being, "We will never forget Kassinga." At the end, the students formed massed ranks, shook their fists and chanted, "We shall never give up. We shall win. Down with imperialism...