Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outflanking maneuver was an outstanding tactical success. Panicked by the magical appearance of the men in blue and the quick firing of nearly a dozen tear gas canisters, the crowd panicked and ran, splitting at once into a mob of discrete individuals. Any sense of unity that might have remained was lost; it was time to get out quickly. The police succeeded completely in controlling the action and keeping it away from the Square, where windows might be broken and more unfavorable publicity generated...
...Seventh Army has had a reputation as a highly disciplined elite unit. But during the past six months the Seventh's image has been rudely shattered by the emergence of racial invective in the barracks plus bitter, sometimes bloody strife between black and white G.I.s. In Friedberg. a mob of 25 club-swinging black G.I.s roamed through the downtown bars, injured three white G.I.s, who had to be hospitalized, and terrorized most of the German citizenry. Another crowd of black troops descended on a civilian police station in Schweinfurt and forced frightened local officials to release a black...
...idealists ... so that today may witness a lot of U.S. mob convulsions which will greatly encourage the enemy...
...April, Weatherman-type gangs of young men and women have made almost daily hit-and-run attacks throughout Calcutta. They have ambushed three police vehicles, killing one policeman and injuring three. One gang stabbed a schoolteacher to death. A plainclothes cop was chased and killed by a knife-wielding mob. Nine movie houses showing an anti-Chinese film were attacked, their audiences routed. Public buses and trams were firebombed. Naxalites ransacked a printing plant handling a U.S. Government account, and sacked the local Ford Foundation office...
...dwarfs, rentable Texans and a legion of sad-eyed nobodies who have "come to California to die." Eros is their ethos, violence their pastime. They drift toward a climax in which a holy idiot stomps a depraved child actor and in turn is torn to pieces by a giggling mob...