Word: malmo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Malmo, Sweden...
...defenders had thought. In June a rat pack of young Swedish ruffians clashed with a group of Assyrian immigrants from the Middle East in Södertälje near Stockholm; it was the third such encounter of the year. Last week, in the southern port of Malmo, another bunch of toughs set out to terrorize 300 gypsy families, most of them from Czechoslovakia and Russia, who live in a local development...
...violence at Malmo erupted when a gang of youths wheeled up to the apartment buildings, picked a few fights with young gypsies, and wound up kicking in the door of an elderly couple. Later, a 70-car caravan of hooligans headed toward the area, only to meet a cordon of police armed for a riot. Brandishing clubs and bicycle chains, the youths battled police for an hour...
...receiving a living allowance to boot: "There's no way I would go back. I'm getting an education and learning how to do something I want to do." Adds Herb Rains, 22, a former Army reservist who now works as a counselor for incoming resisters in Malmo: 'There's simply nothing for me to go back to. I'm very much involved in the Swedish way of life, and I like...
...bitterness, Polish citizens have noted the different situations in neighboring lands. Hungary, for example, has been making steady progress with a "New Economic Mechanism" that introduced capitalistic profit-and-loss into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never rapier-sharp at best...