Word: machineguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tanzania's President Nyerere intrigued the group for two hours in his rambling, high-ceilinged statehouse in Dar es Salaam. He used his ivory-tipped chiefs staff as a stage prop, sometimes rapping it for attention, at other times pointing it at his listeners like a machinegun. Asked if he thought American business should pull out of South Africa or stay and try to help the blacks, he lifted his voice like a preacher: "Out, out, I tell you, leave that blessed land," a view directly opposite that expressed by black leaders in Johannesburg...
...July 4 -Behind a mortar, bazooka, and machinegun barrage, the Weathermen capture and demolish the Whitehall induction center in New York City as a tribute to the first American revolution...