Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woolens shops. "This is not an island, it's a desert," snarled a tobacconist. "They're trying to make a graveyard," complained Restaurateur Otello Caporicci, "out of the historical center of Rome." The aggrieved merchants banded together, turned out the lights in their shopwindows in protest. Some restaurants even served food by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside the island, traffic piled up on the perimeter in an angry, tooting wall of vehicles, often preventing even buses and taxis from getting into the island, where they belonged...
...hall. Caving in, Traffic Commissioner Pala first reopened almost half the isola to private cars, put part of the Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square) to use as a car park. Two days later he went further, agreeing to let the rest of the island sink under the sea of protest, and putting pedestrians back in their place-hugging the sidewalks for dear life...
Iraq denied all-then accused Iranian border guards of "accompanying Kurdish infiltrators" three kilometers in side Iraq. Back came Iran with the protest that 100 armed Iraqis had invaded Iran again, attacking Iranian nationals and rustling cattle. Last week Iran accused Iraq of four more air attacks, listed a total of seven Iranians dead and 20 wounded in the frontier fray...
Undercover Parks. The geometry of ancient Greece rules this elevated plane. Four roofless exedrae, or terraced pits, provide outdoor spots for plays, lectures, flirting, and even small protest meetings. Piercing the center is one of modern architecture's most unusual staircases: an amphitheater that descends to 21 classrooms below the flying court. The platform level gives second-story entrances to the library, laboratories and student-union building (which houses barbershops, bowling alley and rifle range...
Pleasure Dome. As one step to boost employment, Singapore hopes to resume its profitable $500 million-a-year trade with Indonesia, halted 18 months ago in protest against Indonesia's guerrilla war with Malaya. The island's dire need for business has led it since October to sell the U.S. more than $2,000,000 worth of supplies for Viet Nam, though it disapproves of U.S. policy there. Premier Lee Kuan Yew is also considering making Singapore available as a rest spot for dollar-laden U.S. troops from Viet Nam. The most intriguing proposal, however...