Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trees and newspaper kiosks around Buenos Aires last week, 30,000 painted human silhouettes were pasted up; each bore the name and age of one of the more than 6,000 civilians who disappeared during the 1970s, apparently at the hands of the ruthless military. Then the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the group that has tenaciously been protesting those disappearances for six years, launched a special 24-hour march of resistance. As onlookers applauded, 5,000 protesters marched amid a sea of waving banners, crying, "We want them back!" Even when youths insulted and spat on police, the officials...
...resistance was one of a number of signs of unrest in Argentina. In recent weeks an estimated 2 million wage earners (out of a total of less than 10 million) have gone on strike. In part at least, all of them share the credo expressed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo four years ago to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "We have to understand the truth, otherwise a shadow of sadness will forever hang over the descendants of this shattered generation...
When the stock market closed last Monday at 4 p.m., a group of Salomon and Chrysler executives was already meeting in the Salomon offices on the 41st floor of 1 New York Plaza in Manhattan. Salomon advised Chrysler to set the premium at $5 and to add 10.20 as a "tail" to make sure there was no tie, making the total bid $21.602 per share. Then at 4:20, just ten minutes ahead of a deadline set by the Treasury, a Salomon agent dropped the bid into a slot in the northwest conference room on the tenth floor...
...Santiago's Plaza Italia was peaceful, orderly and well organized by five of the nation's leading opposition groups. All that did not prevent the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from launching one of its most vivid displays of brutality since Chileans began staging monthly "days of national protest" against the Pinochet regime four months ago. As some 3,000 demonstrators chanted, "He's going to fall, he's going to fall," riot police armed with truncheons, tear gas and water cannons fell upon the demonstrators and beat them savagely. "This is madness, madness!" objected...
...first and most successful daily talk show; each Thursday night 30 million fans tune in to the 60-minute The Best Ten, a sort of Your Hit Parade; while on Fridays 11 million watch her play host to several 100-piece classical orchestras on the 30-minute Music Plaza show...