Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Place of Slaughter. There were other demonstrations last week that hardly befitted a newly independent nation. At the industrial capital of Bulawayo (which means "Place of Slaughter" in the Sindebele language), a policeman shot and killed an African member of a mob stoning a bus. Soon the entire African community, usually docile, was up in arms. Half the city's labor force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire...
Died. Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, 66, political liaison man for the Chicago crime syndicate, who first made it to the top of the mob as a labor racketeer (dairies, laundries) in the 1930s and 1940s, in recent years lived luxuriously in Chicago and Key Biscayne, Fla., dodging appearances before Washington crime committees; of a heart attack, four hours after his arrest on a perjury charge; in Chicago...
...Your story on General Walker [Nov. 5] contains two misstatements of fact: 1) the AP cub reporter charged Walker with "encouraging the riots," 2) "segregationist" Walker sued AP. The two verdicts Walker won were based on false charges by AP that Walker "assumed command" of a mob of 1,000 people and "led a charge" against U.S. marshals. If Walker had been charged only with "encouraging riots," the verdicts would be improper. Under the facts, as proved in court, the verdicts were proper. Moreover, Walker is not a "segregationist...
Army Commander Suharto, the tough little major general who crushed the Red-led coup, called Subandrio's bluff, demanded proof of any CIA backing for the strongly nationalist newspapers that the army has allowed to publish. After a bugle-blowing mob of 3,000 Moslem youths demonstrated in front of the Foreign Ministry, Subandrio backed down. "I wish to correct my speech," the once cocky diplomat allowed. Headlined an army daily: SUBANDRIO REFUTES HIMSELF...
Talk & Talk. Had the message got through? Greeted at Salisbury airport by a mob of 1,500 whites roaring "U.D.I. Now!" and "Good old Smithy!", Rhodesia's leader would say only that it was a "better than even bet" that Rhodesia would be independent before Christmas. Then, after calling in his Cabinet for a series of marathon sessions on U.D.I., he appeared on television. "I have impressed on my colleagues that this is the most important decision that I think they will ever have to make in their lifetime," he said. "I want them to talk and talk until...