Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call Me." Back at the white mansion on South Perry Street, John Patterson and his family had finished an informal dinner of charcoal-broiled steaks on the terrace. The Governor was following the progress of the riot by telephone. When Public Safety Director Floyd Mann phoned that the mob was growing, Patterson declared martial law, ordered Adjutant General Henry Graham, a National Guard major general, to lead his troops to the church. Then Patterson called Bobby Kennedy to report that the Guard had gone into action, but that the general could not guarantee the protection of Martin Luther King...
...protect Martin Luther King." Patterson backed down, admitted that it was he, not the general, who felt that King could not be protected. As it turned out, General Graham was capable of protecting King and everyone else. He kept the Negroes in the stifling hot church until the mob was dispersed, then escorted them home early in the morning...
Perkins described the Greyhound's trip through the Carolinas and Georgia as relatively peaceful, but he said, once the bus passed into Alabama, people began to taunt, "You ain't in Georgia now. You in Alabama." He told how a mob burned the bus after stopping it a few miles out of Anniston and throwing a fire bomb through a window...
There was an ominous clarity to the handbills that littered Caracas' Central University. "The people threw out Nixon in 1958," they said. "They can do the same in 1961." The signature: "Young Communists." In 1958, appeals by Communists and their friends produced such mob frenzy that the car carrying the touring U.S. Vice President was stopped and stoned; Nixon was unharmed, but his visit was ruined. Last week Venezuela's Communists were out to get new U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso when he ar rived to take up his post. But their best efforts were unable to mobilize...
...days just after Betancourt won Venezuela's presidency (but lost Caracas, 5 to 1), even so determined a display of security could not have kept rioters off the streets. Since then, Betancourt has repeatedly demonstrated that he will use whatever force is necessary to save his country from mob rule. Lately, militant groups of the President's Democratic Action Party have taken to coping with violent street opposition with strong-arm squads of their own. As it also becomes obvious that riot organizers are nearly always of the extreme left or the extreme right, the students and unemployed...