Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sacramento's shrieking, surging mob of some 100,000 sent Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
...maintained. The other councilmen felt that the OAS decision had to be honored as part of Uruguay's treaty obligations. In Montevideo, a crowd of 2,000 pro-Castroites started to stage a rock-tossing demonstration; the cops promptly hauled out tear gas and fire hoses, and the mob retreated to the university, where it holed up for two days...
...Catholic youth was led by his Buddhist captors through Saigon's wide, tamarind shaded streets, past truckloads of police who did nothing to save him, toward the central market. There, a Buddhist mob howled and rushed the prisoner. A ten-year-old boy plunged a dagger into his thigh: the victim tried to flee but was stopped beore he went 20 steps. A bicycle was thrown on top of him, and the mob jumped up and down on it. Finally, the Catholic struggled up, dragging a broken leg behind him, but was cut down again and killed by flailing...
...coastal Danang, 380 miles north of Saigon, an "executive committee" of 15 Buddhists arrived by bus from the militantly Buddhist city of Hue. What followed was an anti-Catholic pogrom. A mob invaded a fishing village housing 4,000 Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam and, as the residents fled in boats, burned 90% of their homes. The government was either unwilling or unable to stop the riots. Beyond detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins...
...shot cracked out. The Catholics insisted that it was fired by an army colonel, others thought it came from the crowd, possibly from a Red agent. In any case, panicky guards loosed a 60-second fusillade that killed six in the throng, wounded twelve. In the stunned aftermath, the mob picked up a dead 17-year-old boy, laid him along a barbed-wire fence. His mother pushed his tongue back into his mouth and closed his eyes; others draped a crucifix around his neck and a Vietnamese flag over his body. Khanh emerged expressing sorrow, and pleaded, "Please...