Word: maces
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...cutter. Back and forth they go, five or six times, the protester poking and taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side for a small black can, a stream of mace. Boltcutters waving at his side, the protestor stumbles away in search of boric acid...
Protesters, held off by Mace and tear gas-wielding policemen, tried unsuccessfully for three days in early October to break down the chain link fence surrounding the plant and occupy the reactor site...
...days by the secret police in 1973. Baraheni told of seeing in SAVAK torture rooms "all sizes of whips" and instruments designed to pluck out the fingernails of victims. He described the sufferings of some fellow prisoners: "They hang you upside down, and then someone beats you with a mace on your legs or on your genitals, or they lower you down, pull your pants up and then one of them tries to rape you while you are still hanging upside down." Baraheni himself was beaten and whipped, and released only after agreeing to make a statement on television condemning...
...demonstration, which stayed peaceful all day, contrasted with the occupation attempt at Seabrook earlier in October. There, violence flared when police fired tear gas shells, sprayed mace and shot high pressure fire hoses at demonstrators attempting to storm the fence...
...peaceful demonstration was in sharp contrast to the attempted occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plan three weeks ago, when demonstrators tried to take down fences with wire cutters and police responded with mace, tear gas, police dogs and firehoses. "This had different aims and a different philosophy," one protester said