Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local farmers marched through the streets of Angra do Heroismo, the second largest city in the islands, demanding that the offices of the Communist Party and the leftist Democratic Movement Party (M.D.P.) be closed. After trying to lynch one Communist sympathizer and kicking and beating three M.D.P. members, the mob surrounded the Communist Party headquarters with tractors, then set the building ablaze with Molotov cocktails. Fifteen persons were injured...
...from the Bogside area that adjoins the parade route, and a pitched battle was soon under way, leaving 175 wounded. This year, on the same occasion and on the very same streetcorners, British soldiers were back in action. They fired plastic bullets and tear-gas grenades into a Catholic mob that had come to lob rocks and bottles at Protestant marchers, who, for the first time since 1969, had been allowed to follow the traditional parade route...
...delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck by a Catholic mob, beaten and shot five times...
...Llewellyn's funeral procession, and Father Aodh Bennett of the Clonard Monastery near Falls Road held prayer services for the soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...
...monthly has printed more than 20 carefully researched articles linking criminal figures to abuses in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' pension fund. Last month, when James Hoffa disappeared, reporters automatically turned to Overdrive for an explanation. In its latest issue, out this week, Overdrive concludes that the Mob did Hoffa...