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...last. As the first barrages of stones were hurled, the students advanced toward the bridge. Police retaliated with a rain of homemade "pillboxes" (small foil packets containing gunpowder and nails). But the students succeeded in setting fire to the makeshift police barricade consisting of one crane and two buses. After several charges, police opened fire; the fighting spread to the surrounding streets and lasted through much of the night. The police used truncheons and pistols; the rioters used stones and took up a collection among bystanders to buy gasoline for Molotov cocktails...
...divers resumed yesterday morning and the cabin cruiser's windshield broke the surface around 11:30 a.m. Shortly after noon, the boat was lifted by crane to a nearby floating dry dock...
Venesian Carnival, August 12, Castle Hill Festival at The Crane Estate, Ipswich (next to the beach). Orchestral music, dressage, dancing and singing at 8:30 p.m. Gates open at 6 and tickets are $15 and 12:50. Call 356-4070 for more information...
...close call for the MX; censure for Studds and Crane...
...other action last week, the House was grim as it formally censured Republican Daniel Crane of Illinois and Democrat Gerry Studds of Massachusetts for sexual misconduct with 17-year-old congressional pages. The House Ethics Committee had recommended that the two be given only reprimands, the lightest possible punishment. But prodded by conservative Congressmen, the full House opted for a harsher penalty. Under censure, a lawmaker is stripped of any committee chairmanship; Studds lost his position as head of the subcommittee on the Coast Guard...