Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attired in a flashy crimson shirt and surrounded by security police, Apolo Milton Obote, the President of Uganda, was making his way through a cheering mob. He was leaving Kampala's Lugogo Stadium, where his ruling People's Congress had just approved his "Common Man's Charter," which was designed to turn his country into a socialist one-party state. While the army band blared out the party song, "Uganda Is Marching Forward," three shots rang out. Obote, 44, a onetime herdboy who led his country (pop. 8,000,000) to independence seven years ago, clutched...
...fled into exile and died last month in London. The cause of death, said the coroner's report, was an extremely high level of alcohol in his bloodstream. The Kabaka's followers claimed he had been poisoned by Obote's agents and swore revenge. Outside the stadium last week police seized a man who was thought to be one of the Kabaka's followers...
...Texas regents, angered by two student demonstrations, prohibited school officials from negotiating with anyone engaged in "disruptive activity." In October, Texas students blocked the doors to the university's main building with cypress trees that the school had cut down in order to expand the Texas football stadium. The protesters were particularly angered by the administration's decision to rush the cutting; a few hours later an Austin court handed down a restraining order that would have spared the trees. In November, more activists occupied a campus snack bar from which university officials had barred nonstudents. Both conflicts...
ENTERTAINMENT. Movies were more expensive, up 25? per ticket in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million last spring to $35 million at present. In the taverns of the steel city, the 15? beer could be found no more; it now costs...
...more than a dozen," who chose "to show the violence of the Purdue-Ohio State football game rather than the peaceful scenes on the sidelines. Why were their cameras constantly aimed at the confrontation between the two teams instead of showing us what was going on outside the stadium in the parking lot, where all was calm...