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...responsible for starting the trouble. (The newspaper also insisted, of course, that the rioters had been misled by rumors and misinformation.) Temporarily, at least, the presence of guns had quelled the demand for butter. But there was good reason for the party chieftains to fear that similar demonstrations might flare up again, particularly if nothing is done about the causes that sparked them. As a final irony, it may be that the atheist leaders of Poland have been given a respite by the mere fact that the riots broke out just before the most joyous of Christian feasts. By heritage...
...vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
...Model Cities staff has thrown itself into a seemingly unresolvable dilemma. The harder they work, the sooner they die. Perhaps a sudden flare-up is preferable to a lingering death, but some residents disagree, and the staff itself is divided. The Model Cities agency can do a lot of good things in Cambridge, but when it becomes so enmeshed in politics...
There was, at least, one bit of luck in the situation. The cyclone of 1876 was followed by an outbreak of cholera that killed 50,000. So far, miraculously, East Pakistan's water supplies seem remarkably free of contamination, and there has been no sign of the feared flare-up of cholera, which is endemic in the area. Health officials speculated that, after decades of living in the Ganges Delta, the Bengalis must be pretty much inured to any calamity-bacteriological, meteorological, or political...
Gang raped available women, often followed by a modern version of ritual sacrifice which is accomplished by inserting a lighted flare inside the victim's vagina and watching her explode...