Word: salvoes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fonseca readied a return salvo. He gathered together some friends in Mexico City and produced a poster of his own, advertising a fictional "Darkie" beer. The poster, captioned "Washington Swung with Darkies," shows the first President's portrait on a dollar bill. "George Washington, the old United States secessionist," said the text, "had an excessive fondness for black slaves, according to legend. He used to sneak out of his home silently at night and head for the slave quarters, where he would abuse them. For us, a Darkie is not a person but a beer which we make...
...continued in assorted forms, much of it politically oriented but with violence all too prevalent. The University of South Carolina at Columbia was the scene of skirmishing between youngsters and both police and National Guardsmen. Disorder in Jackson, Mississippi, at least partly related to antiwar sentiment, exploded with a salvo of police bullets that killed two young blacks and wounded at least twelve. In Augusta, Ga., a ghetto protest over the jailhouse death of a black youth led to a lethal police attack on looters...