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This editorial, called "Join the Community," was published on April 16, 1986, the day after students erected a shantytown in Harvard Yard, complete with a wooden "Ivory Tower...
...perhaps the most visible aspect of the campaign against the budget cuts has been the construction of a shantytown on campus by various student groups, including Students for a Democratic University...
Perhaps the worst violence occurred in Guarenas, a shantytown about 12 miles from the capital where the disturbances began. People there formed human chains and threw rocks at National Guard troops in armored cars after the soldiers began firing birdshot and tear gas at looters...
Rioters in the shantytown there emptied dozens of stores and supermarkets and set ablaze at least 14 vehicles...
Inflation has hit 114 percent for September alone, 634 percent so far this year. Police officers in the center of Lima spray black water and bullets into brick-throwing rioters. I have also seen them shoot tear gas into protest marches of shantytown mothers with babies on their backs...