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...barricade stood a crowd of angry youths. Some Sowetans claim that the trouble actually started two hours earlier, when police broke up a meeting called to discuss the threatened eviction of people who were refusing to pay their rent. The government, on the other hand, maintained that the flashpoint occurred at the roadblock, when someone threw a hand grenade at the Land Rovers, wounding four policemen, including three blacks. Both sides agree on what happened next. Police sprayed gunfire into the shrieking crowd, killing eight people and wounding 68 on the spot. Three hours later, security forces attacked a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Barricades in a Black Township | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Black workers have approached Black faculty, staff and students throughout the University to rally support for the workers' efforts to get a fairer shake from Harvard. After all, the conflict between seniority and affirmative action is a flashpoint of the struggle for racial justice in the context of fiscal austerity and job cutbacks. If we Third World students were up in arms about job opportunities for relatively privileged legal scholars, then we are righteously even more animated by the stark spectacle of Black workers and their families literally losing their livelihoods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Minority Workers | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

What purpose do the U.S. Marines serve in Beirut? What purpose could they conceivably serve? There can be no peace in Lebanon without political reconciliation. Perhaps U.S. diplomacy can speed such reconciliation, but the Marines in Beirut are merely a flashpoint for new hostilities. They are clay ducks vulnerable to any of the many anti-U.S. terrorists in Beirut. Did we not learn our lesson in Vietnam? Foreign armies cannot solve domestic political squabbles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out Now | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...killings, FBI Agent Bernard Perez said: "An open attack is a new thing. It could be an escalation." Officials worriedly recalled the stealing of hundreds of pounds of explosives from a construction site in October 1978 and the looting of weapons from a police armory last spring. One potential flashpoint for more violence: Navy maneuvers that are expected to be held in late January or early February. Anti-Navy protesters are already planning mass demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Whatever the reasons for the general phenomenon, there were lingering, legitimate fears in Washington that anti-U.S. riots could occur again, as long as the confrontation with Iran remained at flashpoint. Accordingly, the State Department last week called for the departure of all nonessential personnel and dependents among the 1,200 Americans based in elev en Muslim countries and officially discouraged Americans from traveling to them. A similar order had been issued earlier for Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Precautions Against Muslim Anger | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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