Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hundreds of horn-honking buses and automobiles streaked through the cobbled hills of Lisbon. From their windows fluttered red flags emblazoned with the Socialist symbol-the clenched fist. Their destination was the First of May Stadium, where some 100,000 supporters turned out last week to hear Socialist Leader Mário Soares and watch folk dancers, prancing majorettes and a blaring drum-and-bugle corps...
Yale, which hasn't beaten the Crimson since 1963, discovered in the first event yesterday that the Elis were in for a long day. Ed Ajootian opened Harvard's scoring auspiciously, setting meet and stadium records in the hammer throw. His heave of 196 ft. 3 in. broke the previous record of 196 ft. even set in 1961 by Harvard's Stan Poten...
...dozen-or-so 20-story buildings in the city's center and began shooting at the soldiers below. The snipers held out, in some cases for hours, until the military stormed each building and killed them. Mass arrests, directed by military intelligence, began immediately. Hans lived near the stadium at that time, and he heard the machine-guns at work all night. Everyone I spoke to saw bodies, many bodies, either strewn about in the city center or floating in the Mapocho River...
January 12--One of our new friends, Pablo, seems to have connections with the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Chile's most extreme socialist group. He was a high-school teacher before the coup, was arrested, taken to the stadium, served over a year in jail and now tries to survive by selling balloons in the parks. He said the prisoners at the stadium were given nothing to eat or drink for eight days...
...took him for lunch today--we end up taking all our friends to eat because they have no money, which visibly disturbs them since it violates their strongly Chilean sense of hospitality--and he describes the days in the Stadium. "They took one of the teachers from my school, a 50-year-old Trotskyist, and put him against the wall and asked him if he knew how to pray. He began to sing the Internationale. The machine-gunned him. I cried all night...