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...Crimson have a few days to regroup before going to New York for a Friday meet with Columbia, Penn, and a team from Birmingham, England...
...black Daimler attracted a crowd as soon as it pulled up last week near the burned-out hulk of what had been a postal substation in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city. Out of the limousine stepped Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, anxious to show his concern. "I'm just here to listen," Hurd told a crowd of residents of Handsworth, one of Birmingham's poorest neighborhoods. But the crowd was in no mood to talk. Hurd was showered first with jeers, then with rocks, and was hustled to safety by police...
Thus began the second day of the worst rioting in Britain since 1981. Before the violence subsided, rampaging youths, mostly black, had reduced part of Birmingham's Lozells Road area to rubble. Two men died in the disturbances, 80 policemen, firemen and residents were injured, and more than 50 homes and stores were left in ruins. Police made 190 arrests. "Utterly appalling," declared Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...eight political activists for voter fraud in primary elections last fall, charging that the accused used the names of incapacitated and illiterate nursing- home patients on absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided investigation...
...Singhs sought by the FBI; all Sikh men use the name Singh. "There is still no definitive evidence linking (the fugitive Singhs) to the bombings," said Joseph Valiquette, an FBI spokesman in New York City. Such reservations were upstaged, however, by reports of a mercenary training camp in Birmingham where, according to the school's director, a man named Lal Singh had taken a course in explosives last November. FBI officials refused to comment on whether the fugitive Lal Singh had attended the school...