Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis for the Hispanic vote, Reagan met with Hispanic newsmen and assured them of Bush's "warm feelings with regard to Hispanics." Reagan barnstormed through southeastern Missouri last week, labeling Democrats "trench-coat liberals" and darkly warning that a Dukakis presidency would resemble the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street...
Eyewitnesses, who charged that soldiers at an army compound across the street from the church had watched the assault without interceding, identified many of the attackers as men who work for Romain, a tough former colonel who told Radio Metropole that Aristide was a rabble-rouser who got what he deserved. Haitians now hope that Avril's new government will put a stop to the bloodletting...
...most of the summer, students who favor unification of North and South Korea and an end to American influence have been clashing with police. However it played on foreign television screens, in Seoul these confrontations had the feel of street theater, not revolution. Students knew just how far they could go, and the riot police knew their roles...
...choreography became familiar. Students would throw stones and fire bombs; the police would respond by tossing back the stones along with some pepper gas. An hour later, both groups would call it quits. As if on cue, a water truck would roll in to hose down the street, as the police removed their helmets and the students strolled to their campus. The demonstrations made good, if somewhat misleading, television footage...
Spurning Wall Street, small investors take their money elsewhere. -- The IBM- clone makers revolt. -- America' s overburdened factories...