Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges that the U.S. was plotting to turn Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove up to the war memorial. Shouting "We want Massu!" and "The army to power...
After twelve minutes' bitter combat, the limousine bucked ahead, bound for the tomb of Simón Bolívar, where Nixon was scheduled to lay a wreath. A block from the tomb the car suddenly veered off into a side street. Glancing through a shattered side window, Nixon could see a mob of 3,000 rioters, mostly high school students, waiting for him. (Days later, policemen found 400 Molotov cocktails cached in the basement of a nearby house.) The limousine sped off to the safety of the U.S. embassy residence...
...Lima's broad and sunny central plaza, the Vice President of the U.S. reverently laid at the base of a monument to Liberator Joseé San Martin a wreath whose entwined flowers depicted the Peruvian and U.S. flags. Outwardly Richard Nixon was at ease and confident; inwardly he had to consider warnings from Peruvian police and his own security people to skip the next stop on his program, Lima's 400-year-old University of San Marcos...
...Home, Viper!" The wreath-laying over, Nixon said to his Secret Service chief: "We are going to San Marcos." Soon his white convertible neared the sweating demonstrators, whose faces twisted with hatred as they cried, "Nixon is a viper!" Nixon turned to an aide, said: "I think we ought to take it on," got out of the car. He briskly shook some outstretched hands, shouted over the angry roar: "I came to talk with you! Have your leader come out and talk...
...come and talk with me? You are cowards! Come here and talk." But by then, stones had hit some of Nixon's aides. He withdrew. Valcarcel & Co. stampeded to the Plaza San Martin and shredded the flowers that formed the U.S. flag in the wreath. Catching up with Nixon again as he walked toward his hotel, they spat on him and threw garbage...