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...brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
Heroic Albanians. Whoever was responsible for the flare-up by the canal, it was obvious that it is going to be a painfully slow business to work out a settlement in the Middle East. Nor is the U.N. offering much practical help. After Soviet Russia weighed in with a draft resolution demanding that Israel give up all it had won, delegates from Zambia, Somalia, Malaysia and Burundi read off lengthy speeches asking that Israel be condemned for attacking the Arabs and forced to retreat from Arab territory. Yugoslavia, supported by 16 pro-Arab nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel...
...while last week, it seemed as if the black-power fanatics were all too accurate in predicting anarchy in the nation's slums this summer. In cities as disparate as Tampa, Fla., and Prattville, Ala., Cincinnati and Los Angeles, fire bombs flared and mobs coursed the streets. Store fronts were smashed by looters, and the flames of riot blazed intermittently-but they never reached the roaring pitch of a Watts or a Harlem, a Chicago or a Hough. In most of the cities, cool tactics by police and city governments kept the flare-ups from becoming "the fire next...
Speed & Experience. Whereas Cincinnati's rioting was exacerbated by what Negroes considered harsh justice, the flare-up last week in Los Angeles' perennially explosive Watts area was extinguished by swift, steady police action. When a fire broke out in a military-surplus storage yard, it looked like the first spark. Soon rocks were winging at firemen, and Police Chief Thomas J. Reddin ordered a "tactical police alert"; he threw a cordon of 80 cops around the scene of the fire and snuffed out a potential riot...
...decided to hit back. In March, they chased out the island's chief administrator. Two months later, armed Anguillans ousted the 15-man police force and rolled out oil drums on the little Anguilla airstrip to make sure that they did not return. As occasional shooting continued to flare up in the torpid Caribbean nights, Bradshaw appealed to Britain to help quell the insurrection, but the foreign office said it was an internal matter. Last week the Anguillans tried a new tack: they declared their independence of Britain and asked to be put under U.S. rule. Hardly eager...