Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africans. From the black ghetto of Highfield, 5,000 Africans marched on the police station demanding that they be arrested as were the N.D.P. leaders. Next day a mass strike crippled Salisbury as 20,000 Africans descended on Whitehead's office in the city center. When the mob refused to disperse, the police lobbed tear-gas shells into their midst, scattering them in all directions...
...supervise" the vote. Of 1,532 candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped in the act of tossing a box into the flames: "We are afraid the Rhee Liberals might be winning...
Especially during Nixon's arrival at the convention hall and Lodge's arrival at the Chicago airport, TV reporters, technicians and equipment turned the proceedings into bewildering, inexcusable mob scenes. More and more, TV interviewers tackled VIPs only to show that it could be done, not really because they expected or sought meaningful answers. A camera-eye close-up of reality can be fascinating-but it can also get so close that the human eye sees nothing...
...Napoleon who inadvertently ended her ordeal. Toppled from power after a series of disastrous defeats, nearly lynched by a mob, Godoy fled into exile, never to return. The countess lived on in Spain with at least one consoling memory...
...tough, balding Communist Giancarlo Pajetta and Republican Ludovico Camangi marched to Porta San Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into the mob...