Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left just before the coup, but the five days we spent in Santiago were filled with excitement. There was rioting and shooting all week and you literally had to walk around with a handkerchief over your face because of the tear gas," Peter Carter, coach of the team and a student at the Law School, said yesterday...
...prices without the help of the tax structure, which enables them to operate on a grander scale than their resources would otherwise permit. An investor who buys or erects a building, for example, can write off depreciation on it at a much faster rate than the actual wear and tear on the property would justify. The write-offs shelter from taxes large amounts of the investor's income from other sources, and he can use this tax-free income to buy more land or put up more buildings and pay off his debt tax free. Then, after...
...noon, a pair of Hawker Hunters attacked the palace with bombs, rockets and tear gas. An hour and a half later, infantrymen entered La Moneda by a side door; their officers gave Allende ten minutes to surrender. "All of you go down without weapons and with hands up," the President told the handful of aides who had stayed with him. "Go and surrender to the army. I will be the last to leave." Then, according to Mejido, Allende shot himself...
...city, to the chagrin of the government. Two weeks ago, after Allende's supporters staged a massive rally in Plaza de la ConstituciÓn to celebrate the third anniversary of his election, 100,000 women turned out a day later for a counterdemonstration. They were dispersed with tear...
Shortly after 8 p.m., a squad of 22 policemen entered the riot area and pleaded with the mob to disperse. A vicious baton charge followed, punctuated by volleys of tear gas. Then the order to open fire rang out, and history seemed to repeat itself. At dawn eleven blacks lay dead, cut down by police bullets. Another 27 were injured...