Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal security. Officials fear the Haitian President may resume making the fiery speeches that ignited his mass movement, the Lavalas, or flash flood, in the past. Such rhetoric might, even unintentionally, trigger a popular uprising against the military and the country's rich elite -- a vengeful burst of mob violence that could put the U.S. Army in the middle and in danger...
...polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree he was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we could have sworn we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob him. Like a dam waiting to burst, we looked around at each other, wondering who would be the first to release the floodgate...
...perhaps. Barely two hours after the mayor's address, an explosive device was tossed from a seaside warehouse, tearing into a crowd of several thousand celebrating Paul's return. The blast killed six, injured another 43 and sparked a rampage by furious Aristide supporters. After U.S. soldiers prevented the mob from venting its wrath on several men suspected of throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the warehouse itself. And in a sample of what rich Haitians have predicted could engulf the entire country, the throng stripped the building bare. They took everything: steel drums, bags of cement, iron bars...
...Haiti to restrain and retrain local authorities: 300 monitors were to arrive by the weekend. But it will be months before the new Haitian police can be counted on to enforce civic order fairly. In the meantime, the U.S. wants to make clear that it will not tolerate mob violence, but is uncertain how to convey the message...
...privately expressed doubts. "There is no question," admitted one, "that we are going to be tested every day in our ability to try to provide order and move the nation to a place where it can deal with these issues on its own." One need only glimpse the recurrent mob scenes in Port-au-Prince to realize that the future of democracy in Haiti -- and with it, perhaps, the success of the Clinton presidency -- now hangs in a delicate balance...