Word: razed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small Caribbean nation. Last week the U.S. caved in, recalled the assault force and told its charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince to "resume normal diplomatic relations." The Haitian radio crowed of Duvalier's "triumph of statesmanship," and Papa Doc sent his goons to raze a two-mile strip along the Dominican border to halt the stream of political refugees fleeing his corrupt and bloody regime...
Behind the change is a project to raze Dudley House and Little Hall for an addition to Holyoke Center. Officially, the wreckers are scheduled to start work in June, 1964, but if the buildings' occupants are relocated quickly, demolition could begin next fall...
...self-respecting picturemaker would ever want to work for your company," Old Friend Billy Wilder wired. "The sooner the bulldozers raze your studio, the better it will be for the industry." Elizabeth Taylor, ailing in Paris with a throat infection, managed to whisper "disgraceful, degrading, particularly humiliating. Mr. Mankiewicz took over when
...public housing works, which barely scratches the surface. Last February in Mexico City, the government inaugurated a much more ambitious $2,560,000 social welfare center, which will provide medical care, vocational training and recreation for 60,000 slum dwellers; the government has also started a crash program to raze the city's slums and replace them with low-cost housing. Much of Latin America counts on the Alliance for Progress to further slum removal. In its first year, $145 million is earmarked for urban improvement. Typical projects: $16 million to Colombia for low-cost housing and schools...
...independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park in memory of the dead of the revolution...