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...National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence reported last week that the ambush triggering the Cleveland riot of July 1968 was a deliberate intensification of racial conflict in America. The upheaval, which began with an ambush by blacks on police, was markedly different from other major outbreaks. Violence was directed toward people, not property, and there were more white casualties than Negro. Three whites and four Negroes were killed, twelve whites and three blacks wounded in the ghetto gunfight. The report blamed the violence on "a small and well-equipped army of black extremists." Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, leader...
Though an autopsy showed that the fatal bullet was fired from a weapon smaller than the .38-caliber service revolvers carried by police, students charged brutality, and some, firing from behind logs, wounded five officers in a military-style ambush near the campus. University authorities sought to halt the violence by ordering the closing of the school by 6 p.m. Friday, and police and Guardsmen stood by on the perimeter of the campus to enforce the order. Early that morning, summoned by a report that the student-union building was being looted, police moved in and arrested several before sniper...
...overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
Misdirection sets the ambush. The book's first two sentences read: "It was a late afternoon of savage bottomlands heat in the April of 1935. Johnny Jesus stood between his two companions, leaning back against a high baggage wagon on the warped bricks of the depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty...
From the air, Israeli jets repeatedly pound with rockets, bombs and napalm Arab towns and encampments in Jordan suspected of harboring the fedayeen, the Arab world's "men of sacrifice," who are carrying on a guerrilla war against Israel. Undeterred, the guerrillas cross frequently into Israel to ambush a patrol, plant a mine or leave a plastique explosive in a marketplace. Israeli commandos cross the other way in occasional retaliatory raids against fedayeen bases or positions...