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Roughnecks. The "volunteers" also menaced foreign correspondents and diplomats who had turned out for the show. Christopher Wren of the New York Times had his camera shoved into his face, painfully chipping a tooth; then two roughnecks held his arms while an other punched him in the stomach. Other reporters...
"Farmington has more rednecks than anywhere else in the world," says Wilbert Tsosie, 27, a founder of the Coalition for Navajo Liberation. "They kill you with their eyes first, then pick a secluded spot to beat you up." For the past six weeks, Tsosie's coalition has sponsored Saturday...
Controversy also upset the effort. Taking the evangelical rhetoric too literally, Jews were initially incensed by the "Christian America" overtones of the campaign. But Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, one of the most vehement critics, conceded later that the fracas had actually promoted better Jewish-Christian understanding...
They were like people doing what they could to stop a thug from beating up an old lady, risking injury to the thug or some innocent passerby in the fracas. Or like a policeman pursuing a homicidal maniac at 100 miles per hour, knowing the chase could end in an...
A teen-ager lost his left eye after being slugged by a policeman on the prowl for a much older suspect. An upper-middle-class housewife, wearing only a nightgown and housecoat, was dragged from her home, thrown down a flight of concrete stairs, handcuffed and belabored with obscenities by...