Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a wave of his hand.,, Makarios ended the food blockade of all Turkish Cypriot communities and benignly agreed not to charge excise duties on a food ship due in from the Red Crescent -Turkey's Red Cross. He went even farther, promising 1) to tear down all Greek Cypriot fortifications if the Turkish Cypriots would do the same, 2) financial aid and personal security to any refugees who wish to return to their native villages, and 3) general amnesty...
...funeral drew the high and mighty. But Perpétuo belonged to the favelados, and 5,000 of them turned out to march in the procession, and crowd around his coffin for a last look, or touch, or tear. After the burial, leaders of the "Skeleton" favela solemnly met to discuss changing the name to "Perpétuo" favela. "He would have liked that," was the explanation...
...traditional position of nonintervention should be maintained. The other councilmen felt that the OAS decision had to be honored as part of Uruguay's treaty obligations. In Montevideo, a crowd of 2,000 pro-Castroites started to stage a rock-tossing demonstration; the cops promptly hauled out tear gas and fire hoses, and the mob retreated to the university, where it holed up for two days...
...clients' commercials wrapped around the most popular shows. Some agencies do chores that candidates themselves dare not do, such as soliciting editorial support at the very same time that they buy ad space from the publishers of hand-to-mouth ethnic papers, or paying local authorities not to tear down the candidate's posters. Political accounts pay handsomely in terms of the usual 15% commissions-and in useful contacts...
...admen, who claim that politicians are often suspicious and unsophisticated in the arts of promotion, demand too much. Says Los Angeles' Sanford Weiner, who handles much of the local Republican advertising: "A political account takes three times the effort, three times the time, three times the wear and tear." Political accounts are rejected entirely by some agencies, notably the nation's biggest, J. Walter Thompson, which holds that they are short-term affairs, and might provoke criticism from the agency's commercial clients...