Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intentions of [the] defendants who fired their weapons." He said that the evidence suggested that the "Guardsmen fired for any number of reasons, including the mistaken belief that an order to fire had been given, the fear that they were being fired upon, a desire to convince the mob to cease the barrage of rock throwing and general confusion." As a result, the parents and survivors can hope only for the token solace of damages in a series of civil suits now pending...
Earlier, when told that Nixon was critically ill, California Governor Ronald Reagan gracelessly said: "Maybe that will satisfy the lynch mob." In fact, the hospital switchboard was jammed with sympathetic calls, and its mailroom flooded with get-well messages from across the country. One room had to be set aside to contain the flowers...
...square in the picturesque Trastevere section, Rome's equivalent of the Left Bank. Outside Milan, arsonists, probably belonging to a leftist group called the Red Brigades, burned down the warehouses of a company associated with ITT, destroying $10 million worth of telephone equipment. Near Naples a mob of unemployed men, along with their families, blocked a main north-south railway line. Fifty people were arrested before the line was reopened. In Venice, trash collectors blockaded the Grand Canal for two hours with scores of garbage scows...
Firm Tug. Limping because of her broken foot, Polly Mills grabbed her husband's hand and firmly tugged him through the mob of newsmen at the Little Rock airport. One man held up a sign that read SUPPORT THE KENNEDY-MILLS WATER SAFETY BILL, but that gibe did not appear to reflect the majority opinion on Mills' escapade. The next evening an enthusiastic gathering of Jaycees laughed and shouted "Good for you, Wilbur" as Mills attempted to explain what had happened. "I was one of those who went out one night and did something I shouldn...
...agents arrested two white men on a civil rights violation for their part in a mob attack on a lone black man the previous week. Three others, found with Molotov cocktails in their car, were charged by the agency with conspiracy to obstruct a federal court order. At Hyde Park High School, six white students were beaten and one stabbed in a clash among teenagers. That ugly incident prompted Republican Governor Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted...