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...konfrontasi with Malaysia, and called for a return to his old policies. His defiance stirred his followers in Ban dung to attack anti-Sukarno student groups, killing one anti-Sukarno youth, and setting off retaliatory riots in Djakarta. Fearful that people-packed Java (pop. 70 million) might erupt in full-scale riots, General Suharto ordered the Djakarta students to cool it and started the trials instead...
Katzenbach was asked if he included Boston on the list of 30 or 40 cities in which violence could erupt at any time. "I wouldn't exclude Boston from the list," he answered...
...impending trouble. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Brown's rival for the Democratic nomination, both seized the opportunity to fault the Governor for keeping the tip from Los Angeles officials. In fact, Negro leaders have repeatedly warned that Watts would erupt again unless a major effort was mounted to correct its social and economic problems...
...impulsive giant, tough, restless, fitful and unpredictable." He is given to "disorderly policy-making and capricious personal judgments," said Reston. Sulzberger saw a much different man. "On the surface," he wrote, a casual observer might see an "air of precipitate haste that accompanies presidential decisions when new crises erupt. But underlying such agitation there also appears to be a remark ably calm resolve not to be provoked by minor pinpricks nor to be impelled toward holocaust by local explosions...
...Devil at Four O'clock. Spencer Tracy, as a hardhanded Irish-American priest, and Frank Sinatra, as a hard-case Italo-American criminal, invoke the blessings of heaven in their work at a children's leper colony situated on the slopes of a volcano that may erupt any moment...