Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Negro's struggle to achieve that right exploded into an orgy of police brutality, of clubs and whips and tear gas, of murder, of protests and parades and sit-ins in scores of U.S. cities and in the White House itself. It was a week in which the potential for further violence was so great that President Johnson signed an order that would have dispatched federal troops to Alabama on a moment's notice. It was a week of intense pressures and back-room dealings, of quick emotionalism and easily achieved righteousness...
...Busy Building. While Belaúnde builds, Communism tries to tear him clown. Each week, Moscow, Peking and Havana beam 110 hours of short-wave hate into Peru and the other west-coast nations. The broadcasts, in Spanish and Quechua, urge the Indians to take up their slingshots to "exterminate the capitalist wolves." From time to time, a few Red-led bands have invaded highland haciendas and stirred trouble in the mines. But the Communists are few and out of date in Peru. The country is too busy working on Fernando Belaúnde's Peruvian architecture...
...architect and declared Belaúnde's candidacy illegal for lack of enough petition signatures. Belaúnde called a protest demonstration in downtown Lima, raised high a Peruvian flag, and shouting "Adelante!", led a mob of 1,000 toward the President's palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost to Manuel Prado, an aristocrat who had made a deal with...
...church is surrounded by possemen on horseback with tear gas. People are in the hospital. Doctors are next door to the church...
...There is a rumor that if the people don't leave the church, it will be raided by state troopers. This came through a funeral home. Tear gas was shot into a house down the street by state troopers...