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...time the rioting subsided, one looter had been killed, 22 people had been wounded, and property damage was estimated at $1 million. Police arrested 385, mostly for looting. The toll was modest, compared with the 18 killed, 400 wounded and $100 million in devastation wrought by the Miami riots of 1980. But like the '80 melee and conflagrations in '82 and '84, last week's upheaval brought into sharp focus the tensions that have grown for nearly three decades between native-born blacks and new arrivals from Cuba, Haiti and now Nicaragua...
More raids followed, including one in which a looter was killed. The trail took police and archaeologists to a huge adobe platform at the base of a weathered Moche pyramid near Sipan. When the authorities arrived, they found men, women and children combing the area for artifacts dropped by the huaqueros, who unload the contraband on the black market for buyers in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Driven off by police, the villagers viewed the new diggers as little more than government-protected thieves. Threats followed, including oaths of vengeance sworn by the relatives of the slain huaquero. Nightly...
...Gaurd Bob Ferry added two tree throws 20 seconds later. The Crimson got the hall again and when Diston saw an opening in the Tiger zone he drove through the lane jumped up in the air and dropped at off to White, who calmly sunk a three looter. Ivy League Overall Team W L Pct W L Pct. Princeton 10 2 .833 16 8 .667 Penn 9 3 .750 15 9 .625 Columbia 7 5 .583 10 14 .417 Cornell 6 6 .500 10 14 .417 Yale 5 7 .417 9 14 .391 Harvard...
...Looter's Trifle...
...fire would spread to his store. After they left, he started boarding up the store so nobody could throw no fire inside. While he was there two National Guard drove up. They bust him 'side his head and pointed their guns at him, just like he was a looter." Although Andrew condemns the police action, he also criticizes his own people for their part in the violence. Says he: "We only speak up after something happens...