Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...municipal committee forbade the posting of wall posters anywhere in the city except on the 100-yd. stretch of Changan Avenue at Xidan Street that has become known as democracy wall. A People's Daily editorial, which accompanied the edict, warned against "gatherings and parades that block traffic, attacks on the party, government and military organs," and "other acts of rumor-mongering and troublemaking...
Police spokesmen said the arrests were made to prevent disruption of traffic, but they declined further comment...
...sputter of midnight traffic had given way to the long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away...
Ronald Vanelli, director of the Science Center, said yesterday that the architectural design allows an uninterrupted flow of traffic throughout the building. "The open arcade gives the center an aura of constant excitement," he said...
...done studies to show that there is no place to reroute the central part and still make all the traffic connections the artery presently makes. We'd have to reconstruct right under the existing highway," Sloane said...