Word: antiriot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...march to Johannesburg to deliver their protest, but the tradition of kragdadigheid (ironfistedness) in dealing with blacks dies slowly. At New Canada Railway Station, hard by the giant yellow waste heaps of the gold mines, the crowd ran up against another roadblock, this one heavily manned and guarded by antiriot squads reinforced with a fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were evidently trying to avoid heavy casualties, because only two people were killed...
...blacks failed to show up at their jobs in Johannesburg. By week's end only a handful of people had been killed in the new disturbances, but mobs of adults as well as youths were still roaming through the streets of Soweto, and squads of heavily armed antiriot police were maintaining a careful watch...
...Control. Reinforced by antiriot squads and attack-dog units, police sealed off the township; army helicopters flew over Soweto dropping tear-gas canisters on the crowd. By this time, though, the students were out of control; scores of cars and at least one beer truck were set afire; libraries and even health clinics were stoned. As darkness fell, adults joined the youths in looting stores. The death total for the day was estimated at 25; some of the victims, police said, were killed by what they called "freelance vandals," which could well be true, since Soweto...
...spokesman said yesterday that the government was charging Zimmerman, Oliphant, and a third man, William P. Wright of Chicago, with conspiracy to violate the antiriot provisions of the 1968 Federal Crime Control...
...many in the province, life can never again be normal. Not for the 11-year-old Londonderry boy, just back from a futile trip to Boston in a quest to regain his eyesight, which was destroyed by one of the British army's six-inch-long rubber antiriot bullets. Not for the 22-year-old Catholic girl maimed on the eve of her wedding when the Irish Republican Army bombed a Belfast restaurant. "Two legs gone, one arm sheared off, an eye lost, all in one young female body," said Dublin's Irish Times. "That equals someone...