Word: pac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economic Slide. The movement is named after Túpac Amaru, an Inca chief who rebelled against Spanish colonizers in the late 18th century and was subsequently executed. It has its origins in a sugar-worker protest movement that was formed seven years ago. A leftist activist named Raúl Sendic, who has been underground for years, is thought to be the leader of the Tupamaros. Economic discontent has undoubtedly helped the movement grow. A welfare state that assured its citizens full pay after retirement at the age of 55, Uruguay, once Latin America's richest nation...
...informant befriended several other members of the executive council and, as a result, was exposed to the detailed plans of the march. On the basis of the informant's greatly embellished version of PAC's plans, the Century Corporation's lawyers were able to obtain a ten-point injunction from a municipal judge on the morning of 23 June, which ordered the marchers to "restrain" from doing the ten things listed on the injunction. The injunction order was handed to Irving Sarnoff, PAC chairman, at the rally before the march began...
...second point on the injunction order prohibited "Intentionally stopping the course of any parade within limits of Century City." A PAC official explained that although nobody wanted to stop the parade in front of the hotel, it did stop, and the police could not know for sure whether it had been intentional or not. This may have led police to believe their intelligence information was being proved correct and lent credibility to the informant's statement that the marchers planned to storm the hotel...
This coincidence, according to the PAC official, was the proposed justification for the brutal sweep of the police. "Her entire statement is half truths and lies," said the PAC executive...
Forty-seven of the 51 persons arrested were released on bail, which PAC raised the night of the march. Bail money totalled...