Word: plaza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ones and twos into the library. To the security guards on duty in the four-story former U.S. embassy building, everything seemed normal. A block away, police officers showed no concern when some other well-dressed young people began to collect in a passageway under the City Hall Plaza. Then, without warning, the youths rushed up from the passageway and began racing toward the building, flinging rocks and bottles at startled policemen. Surging inside, they joined the students already in the second-floor library and announced that they were taking the place over. Visitors and the library staff were requested...
...clear is what will happen to 1,200 junior officers accused in specific instances. Alfonsin hopes that civilian courts will deal with them, but Argentine human rights organizations are agitating for a thorough cleansing of the entire military. Says Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who for eight years have staged protests against the disappearance of their relatives: "When my son was taken, five cars came to the house. He was tortured for hours. They are all responsible, and we will fight to the end of our days...
...Wade decision. An even greater number, however, read stories about women who had received necessary, beneficial, legal abortions without danger or guilt. A huge speak-out is scheduled for this Tuesday in Washington. From 7 a.m. until midnight, letters and statements will be read in the western plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue. The following day, pro-choice advocates plan to leave copies of some of the accounts with Senators and Congressmen...
...behavior of the next generation of Truebas is scarcely more sensible. Nicolas' twin Jaime is famous for literally giving his shirt away at the sight of a needy person. On one occasion he charitably removes his trousers in a public plaza, causing bystanders to cheer. Sister Blanca is regarded as the only normal member of the family because she shows "not the slightest inclination for her mother's spiritualism or her father's fits of rage." Still, she is the first among the clan's women to bed down outside her class...
Many who descended on the new named Vietnam Veterans Plaza were wearing black armbands and black jackets to remember 2,247 American soldiers still listed as missing in action...