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Meats included stag, gazelle, kid, lamb, mutton, squab and a bird called tarru. Frequently mentioned seasonings included onions, garlic and leeks, while stews were often thickened with grains, milk, beer or animal blood. Salt was sometimes mentioned...
...initially uncashable, along with the right to pay a discount price for a bag containing rice, beans, salt and other basic foods meant to feed a family of five for a week. Outraged workers poured the salt on office steps and chanted anti-Noriega slogans. Firing tear gas and bird shot, riot police broke up demonstrations at the Education Ministry in Panama City and in the ports of Balboa and Cristobal. A day later doctors and nurses at two state-run hospitals hurled rocks at police and then fled inside. Showers of Molotov cocktails, stones and chairs rained...
...demonstrators had no time to stare. Jets of water washed over them while police fired volleys of bird shot and U.S.-made tear gas into the crowd. For the next two hours, knots of marchers chanted, banged poles, and burned tires and garbage in the streets. Shuttling from one area of protest to the next, police forced the groups to seek refuge in bars and boutiques and finally directed their fire into the shops and even into apartments. Said an indignant woman inside a store that reeked of eye-stinging gas: "I'm an old lady with a bad heart...
...like a bird...
...bird...