Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student skit triggered the final crisis, and the coup. Selecting a youth who resembled Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, the leftists staged a mock hanging. Gruesome pictures of the charade were splashed all over Bangkok's daily papers that night. By dawn, an enraged mob of 10,000 rightists armed with rifles, swords and clubs began attacking Thammasat. They were met by M-16 gunfire and grenades. Then the troops moved...
...desperate students managed to escape by the Chao Phya River at the rear of the campus. Others who ran for the streets were set on by the rightist mob. Several were beaten close to death, then hanged, or doused with gasoline and set afire. One was decapitated. The bodies of the lynched victims strung up on trees were mutilated by rioters, who gouged out their eyes, slit their throats and lashed at them with clubs and chains...
Radio Omens. From Thammasat, the mob moved on to Government House, where a tearful Seni Pramoj, who may well have known about the military's plans, offered his capitulation. "I did my best," Seni told the crowd. "I tried to keep law-and-order in this kingdom, but if you wish, I will go." The military, after taking power, promptly installed Supreme Court Justice Tanin Kraivixien, 49, as the new Prime Minister...
...nights before the stadium mob scene, 1,000 police had protested next to Gracie Mansion, Mayor Abe Beame's residence. They set off firecrackers, clanged garbage-can lids, blocked traffic, and shouted "Wake up, wake up!" through the streets of one of Manhattan's most fashionable neighborhoods...
Elusive Racket. The Mob's operation is highly sophisticated. Some families are believed to own North Carolina dealerships, which supply them with cigarettes free of the North Carolina tax stamp. Their trucks are equipped with two-way radios and escorted by scout cars on the lookout for police. On a typical run, the cigarettes are loaded onto giant tractor-trailers capable of hauling as many as 60,000 cartons at a time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once...