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...Cape Town disturbances culminated in a chaotic riot in the heart of the city's white sector. Bewildered lunchtime shoppers there dived for cover as police launched an assault on a group of blacks outside a courthouse in which three men were on trial for murdering a police officer. Hundreds of bystanders of several races were caught up in the fray as security officers used truncheons and whips in their efforts to clear the streets. In predawn raids the following day, police arrested more than 60 activists, including leaders of the multiracial United Democratic Front, 16 of whose members...
...prison officers suddenly opened the prison's steel and barbed-wire gates and, along with the 40 guards on duty, simply walked away. The two officers and other members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought by one of the inmates. Within minutes the entire population of the facility, including murderers, rapists and petty thieves, had escaped. City officials advised residents to lock their doors...
...Contradictory statements by the mayor, Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Fire Commissioner William Richmond and City Managing Director Leo Brooks, who has since resigned, were not resolved. At issue was whether the mayor knew that police intended to use explosives on Move's fortified compound as part of their original assault plan, and whether he also knew that a police helicopter would be used to drop a bomb. Goode claimed he knew little or nothing of either scheme, but Sambor and Brooks said they had informed the mayor. Said Goode: "If anyone had come to me and said, 'We're going...
...bodies among the six adults and five children who died in the Move house. The Philadelphia police had testified that they did not shoot at Move members trying to escape the fire. Hameli's testimony, based on his findings, was that the cause of the deaths in the assault was either suicide or homicide, not accidents as police have contended...
...first government assault on the building began as an armored vehicle rammed its way through the two-story-high, ornately carved wooden doors. Courthouse workers and guests hid in terror as the outgunned M-19 guerrillas shot it out with the troops. Scores of people who had been trapped in the building escaped in the chaos...