Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When purchasing the tear gas, the ad warns, remember "No riot mob is going to stand still just because you wish they'd wait for me, while I go find my tear...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...
...Mob Action. Thieu first accused the three in November, when he gave photographs and other evidence purportedly documenting their treasonous activity to leaders of the lower house. When weeks passed and the leaders failed to take action, he began issuing increasingly ominous warnings, declaring at one point that "the people and the army" would "assume the task of beheading these Communist elements" if the Assembly did not. Three weeks ago hundreds of government-paid demonstrators stormed the lower house, which meets in Saigon's neo-Romanesque old Opera House, smashed its glass doors and furniture, threatened some Deputies...