Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, the man who was installed to end the Algerian war, is being attacked because he remains indecisive about it. From right and left last week, manifestoes were flung across France demanding solutions for Algeria, and Paris witnessed its first anti-De Gaulle riot when a mob of 3,000 young right-wingers shouting "Algeria is French!" tried to march on the presidential palace and were bloodily dispersed by club-swinging cops...
...other hordes at safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward off any mob attacks. Scores of plainclothesmen from the Red countries as well as the U.S. stalked in doorways, on rooftops, bridges and overpasses, while fleets of escorting motorcycles and patrol cars shot up and down the streets with sirens wailing...
...staid Plaza Hotel to attend a Togolese reception. As he stepped from his limousine, hundreds of New Yorkers greeted him with the wildest chorus of boos and catcalls that he had got all week. Smiling, he waved at them and darted into the lobby, where again a mob of onlookers, including a heavy sprinkling of resident dowagers, joined in the heckling. At the elevator Khrushchev turned toward the grim-faced elderly ladies, uttered one Milton Berlesque "Boo!" and stepped aboard...
...money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard, and the driver roared through the mob. The favela-dwellers gave chase, brandishing clubs and rotten vegetables until the truck neared a police station. Then they fell away, and headed home...
...ordinary duty, the G.I.s had come off one mission of mercy-flying supplies to Chilean earthquake victims-only to be assigned to another: delivering men and materiel into the Congo on U.N. duty. No sooner had they debarked in Stanleyville than they were pummeled and beaten by a howling mob...