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Surprisingly, there were only two gunshot deaths: a 14-year-old Negro girl, who had been watching the rioting, and a 28-year-old Negro man, found in an alley; at least 83 other civilians were wounded and 403 arrested by week...
Died. Kamel Mrowa, 54, U.S. missionary-educated Lebanese publisher whose daily Al-Hayat (circ. 22,000) ranks as the leading voice of responsible Arab nationalism, scorning Nasser's adventurous leftist socialism; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a pro-Nasser bank messenger; in Beirut...
...foreign food," people must now subsist on a daily rice ration of only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near Calcutta to protest food shortages. Not far away, in the West Bengal town of Baduria, police fired on a stone-throwing mob of 3,000 rioters who were demanding the release of rice supplies; one rioter was reported killed...
Died. Barbara Ann Rooney, 29, sometime actress, fifth wife of movie actor Mickey Rooney; by gunshot (.38-cal. pistol), apparently at the hand of her friend of recent months, Milos Milosevic, 24, a sometime actor, who then committed suicide; in Mickey's Brentwood, Calif., home, after she had visited her ill (with a blood infection) husband in a nearby hospital, and promised not to see Milosevic again...
...fewer men. The force is so slothful that an aggrieved Baltimorean cannot even be sure that his complaint will be recorded, much less acted on. Investigation is so lax that at least four times in the past year police have attributed deaths to natural causes, despite knife and gunshot wounds on the victims' bodies. Recruitment standards are so low that almost anyone with an eighth-grade education can make patrolman. Civil liberties have been widely ignored by investigators, and, most astonishing for a city with a 40% Negro population, there is no formal procedure for investigating citizen complaints...