Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilgrimage to Mecca, almost certainly had a role in the decision. When the opposition ignored the ban, police arrested hundreds of Bhutto's advisers and political allies in predawn raids around the country. Opposition supporters in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad surged into the streets, where they were met by riot squads and tear gas. In Lahore, beleaguered police fired into a crowd, killing four and wounding dozens...
...celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...
...protesting the French government's crackdown on suspected ETA terrorists who have fled to France. Basque separatists have traditionally used the southwest of France as a haven and headquarters for planning future attacks, but in recent weeks France has handed over five young Basques to Spain. In a pre-riot visit to Madrid, French Security Minister Robert Pandraud said the deportations would continue...
...Boccioni, in particular, kept paying it homage: his striding bronze figure in space, included in the Venice show, alludes to the same Victory of Samothrace that Marinetti thought less beautiful than a car; the figures who scurry frantically about the two battling women in the Milan Galleria in his Riot at the Gallery, 1910, look like the ghostly crowds in the background of Tintorettos. What the futurists opposed was not so much the past itself as the mind-set they called passeism -- nostalgic or obsolete cultural attitudes...
...born resident of Rockville, Md., who had been killed during a general strike against the Pinochet regime on July 2. While visiting a shantytown near Santiago, witnesses said, de Negri and a Chilean student were doused with gasoline and set on fire by uniformed men with grease-blackened faces. Riot police later tear- gassed the funeral march. The U.S. had urged Chile to investigate the murder, and last week the army announced that it had arrested 25 soldiers in the case...