Word: antiriot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered Goosen to shoot...
...drunk at the time of the shooting, while Goosen claimed he was a victim of "posttraumatic stress disorder" because of his exposure to violence in black townships. If the sentence survives the appeals process, the two will become the first white policemen ever executed for killing blacks during antiriot operations in the townships...
Earlier, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman had warned that in the future, police antiriot squads would be permitted to disperse crowds by firing plastic bullets and using tear gas. Both weapons are employed by British troops stationed in Northern Ireland but have never been used elsewhere in Britain. Said a determined Newman: "Officers deployed in such grave situations look to me for reasonable protection. They must and will have it. Anarchy cannot be allowed to prevail...
...President threatened to declare a state of siege, and the national police's "Cobra" antiriot unit took up positions around the National Assembly and the Supreme Court in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Was the army about to take control again in Honduras, a U.S. ally that has been under a military dictatorship for all but three of the past 20 years? It was not, but President Roberto Suazo Cordova, who ordered the deployment of his security forces last week, nonetheless spoke of a "technical coup"--one carried out not by the army but by the legislature...
...member of the UFW, he defied antiriot acts, led boycotts and organized marches. He also antagonized Mexican-American politicians. "At that time," he says, "the UFW was considered unpopular with the Anglos." The problem was that because the non-Anglos were politically inactive, there was no pressure to pay attention to their cause. The solution was La Raza...