Word: providencia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golf district, known for its fine houses and the rending beauty of the girls who parade each Saturday along Providencia Avenue, machine gunners lay prone under budding fruit trees. One soldier, submachine gun at the ready, dagger slung from his shoulder, was being besieged by a comely Chilena who kept threatening to put a flower in his dagger sheath. He resisted. But when I passed the spot a few minutes later, I noticed that the soldier had lost the battle, although perhaps won another...
Suddenly the peaceful demonstration turned into a brawl. Swarming out from a side street, a battalion of young hoods of the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left charged the demonstrators along the broad Avenida Providencia. As the leftists began throwing rocks, right-wing youths wearing hard hats entered the fray swinging wooden clubs. When shield-carrying carabineros finally moved in, they unaccountably aimed most of their tear gas and water cannon at the women. Scrambling in retreat, the marchers shouted "Assassins! Assassins...
...walls of the tiny study in his modest home in Santiago's patrician Providencia district, Dr. Salvador Allende has hung the pictures of his revolutionary heroes. There, last week, surrounded by photographs of Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-as well as one of Eleanor Roosevelt-Allende talked with TIME Correspondent David...