Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midwinter cold snap hit South Africa last week, bringing snow to some areas and subfreezing temperatures everywhere. Over a number of the black townships that are often wreathed in coal-fire smog, there arose, too, the smoke and flames of arson and the swirling white clouds of police tear gas. By week's end, at least 34 blacks had been killed and 150 injured in renewed rioting across the country. After the June toll of 176 dead in Johannesburg's Soweto township, the eruption of violence raised anew the question of whether South Africa can avoid outright racial...
...largest city, where several hundred black students marched out of the Langa high school, formed a phalanx on an adjoining athletic field and began chanting for "black power." Police, using bullhorns, warned them to disperse. The students answered with clenched-fist salutes and a barrage of rocks and bottles. Tear gas disrupted the demonstration, but not for long. Then the police turned fierce Alsatian dogs loose on the students. The police waded in after them for what one observer contemptuously called "a first-class Kaffir-bashing." When night fell, the students were joined by workmen returning from their jobs...
...blacks dies slowly. At New Canada Railway Station, hard by the giant yellow waste heaps of the gold mines, the crowd ran up against another roadblock, this one heavily manned and guarded by antiriot squads reinforced with a fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were evidently trying to avoid heavy casualties, because only two people were killed in the outburst. The march was effectively halted...
Scorched Earth; Officials at Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss-based company that owns Icmesa, have urged Italian authorities to destroy the factory, tear down houses, burn the surrounding vegetation and skim off a foot of topsoil over the entire area affected by the TCDD. Italian officials have not yet decided to adopt such a scorched-earth policy. But army troops have so far evacuated more than 700 people from villages near the plant, and authorities have ordered blood tests on some 15,000 people in the area. Officials are also taking some controversial steps to confine the effects...
...Liverpool, in a house on Highgate Avenue, Frank and Nora Elliot pick at each other like vultures who cannot wait for death to sate their appetites. They tear away while the flesh is still warm...