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...violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless (the vast majority Negro), while 1,300 buildings had been reduced to mounds of ashes and bricks and 2,700 businesses sacked. Damage estimates reached $500 million. The riot surpassed those that had preceded it in the summers of 1964 and 1965 and 1966 in a more fundamental way. For here...
Some of the bloodiest fighting in the hills above Beirut has taken place between two neighboring villages, one Christian, one Druze. Like a Middle East version of the Hatfields and McCoys, the inhabitants of each town see their neighbors as mortal enemies, even though they live only a few hundred yards apart. TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro visited the two Aley-region villages just before the latest clashes erupted. His report...
...fourth, and bloodiest by far, in a series of monthly protests that had already led to nine deaths. Attempting to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew last Thursday, 18,000 troops and police battled hundreds of angry Chilean youths in the streets, while thousands of householders leaned from their windows banging pots and pans in a now familiar ritual of protest against the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. When the fighting ceased, 26 civilians, including three children, were dead, more than 100 were wounded by gunfire and an estimated 1,000 were arrested. In the aftermath, Major General...
...bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut last week killed at least 57 people, 17 of them Americans, and wounded some 100; though the death toll is likely to rise as the search goes on, the assault already ranks as the bloodiest terrorist attack ever against a U.S. diplomatic mission. Ten minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made...
DIED. General David M. Shoup, 78, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1960 to 1963; of heart disease; in Alexandria, Va. During World War II, he won the Medal of Honor for his bravery during the battle of Tarawa, one of the bloodiest of the Pacific...