Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago, as furious Greek Cypriots stormed the building, and burned the American flag, Ambassador Rodger Davies, 53, and a Cypriot embassy employee were murdered by mysterious snipers who fired through the windows. Last week, another stone-hurling crowd of 5,000 marched on the building. Marine guards firing tear-gas shells were unable to halt the demonstrators. Nicosia police finally drove off the crowd, but not before a wing of the embassy had been set ablaze and offices ransacked...
...Cairo for the first time in nearly two years. More than 500 workers from the Helwan industrial complex massed in front of the Interior Ministry demanding a rollback of food prices, which have soared an estimated 20% in the past year. Although police disbanded the mob with clubs and tear gas, protesters roamed through the center of the capital, stoning buses and smashing windows at Libyan Arab Airlines and Air France...
...enemy is off Manhattan. The largest expeditionary force in British history seizes Staten Island and prepares to invade the mainland to crush General George Washington's ragtag Continentals -and with them the Revolution. Near Wall Street, frenzied New Yorkers tear down George III's statue. Delaware Congressional Delegate Rodney Caesar rides 80 miles through thunderstorms to Philadelphia to help make the colonies' Declaration of Independence unanimous...
...Hosea Williams, a leading figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, maintains that the FBI infiltrated the mass gathering of the poor in Washington in 1968 and persuaded young people to throw tear-gas grenades at the police, who retaliated with a barrage of their own. In addition, organizations from the American Nazi Party on the right to the Socialist Workers Party on the left believe that they are still being badgered by the FBI and that their phones have frequently been tapped...
...tear-tugging to read the poetry of the displaced Palestinian. Also very interesting was the consensus at Rabat that the Arabs are again one nation. Strange, is it not? The "Arab nation" has unity of religion, custom, language and heritage, with billions of excess dollars and millions of square miles of unused land, and the only place a Palestinian Arab can feel at home is in "the orange groves of Jaffa...