Word: gunshops
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Rebels in a truck looted a waterfront gunshop; police attacked, and the day's main battle, an hour-long fire fight, followed. At noon an explosion blasted a hole on the famed, tree-lined Prado, setting a gas-main fire that burned with 30-ft. flames until late at night. Youths in cars threw bombs; power and phones went out in parts of the city. Some workers walked off their jobs in banks and stores. But by 12:30 an eerie silence hinted that the strike was failing...
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