Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...
BEIJING--Students at universities in Beijing vowed yesterday to continue their five-day boycott, and wall posters at several schools proclaimed victory a day after more than 150,000 of them and their supporters marched triumphantly for democracy...
...usual impregnable defensive wall and the more-stellar-than-usual sharp-shooting of the attack line sparked Harvard's victory...
...Felix Gallardo, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker, awoke with a stomachache. It was a telling omen. As Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them $5 million in exchange for his freedom. Instead, Felix Gallardo...