Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bleak dawn, a force of 3,000 police, using bulldozers and armored personnel carriers, smashed over trenches and through 6-ft. barricades to battle squatters ensconced in the derelict blocks. While bricks and fire bombs rained down from rooftops, the authorities flushed out hundreds of squatters with clubs and tear gas. At least 160 were injured, including 90 police, and Mayor Walter Momper's governing coalition of Greens and Social Democrats collapsed because of the violence...
Despite many pious promises by candidates to forswear such tactics, negative campaigning is here to stay, in part because it is easier to tear down an opponent's reputation than to take strong positions on controversial issues. "If there hadn't been negative campaigning, no one would have had anything to talk about," says political scientist Paul Green in Chicago. "Politics is a giant minute waltz...
...both Hindus and Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Shouting "Break the mosque! Break the mosque!" about 100 stone-throwing crusaders pulled plaster from the walls and planted saffron-colored flags atop the shrine before they were driven off by police and paramilitary troops armed with tear gas, riot sticks and guns. At least six militants died; next day an additional 16 were killed as police used bullets and bamboo staves to hold back the crowds...
...defiance of government policy, Hindu militants have vowed to tear down the Babri mosque, which they believe was built on Rama's birthplace, and erect a temple of their own. As a result, more than 257 people have died over the past two weeks as clashes between Hindus and Muslims spread to cities in six other states...
...There are no cases in North America of wildwolves attacking people," he said. But "wolvesdon't make good pets--they can grab the neighbors'kids and tear up the house...