Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Tehran awoke to a terse 7 a.m. newscast that reported that "scores of Iranian pilgrims have been shot dead by the Saudi police." By 8 a.m. a crowd of 600 had gathered outside the Saudi embassy. After briefly being restrained by armed police, the growing mob burst into the two-story villa, smashing windows and destroying embassy documents. Last week thousands of mourners walked through Tehran alongside coffins containing bodies brought back from Saudi Arabia. Chants of "Death to America!" and "Death to the fascist Saudi police!" filled...
...status quo," predicted a State Department official. "Panamanians are desirous of legitimate democracy, and we support the move toward democracy." Washington's support has included the suspension of $26 million in economic and military aid to Panama, following a June attack on the U.S. embassy by a pro-Noriega mob. Last week Panama paid $106,000 to compensate for the damage. But by week's end, the U.S. had not yet agreed to thaw the freeze...
...burst of applause and cheers broke out from the spectators jammed together at the back of the courtroom. From outside in the street came more shouts of joy and the sound of cars honking. When Barbie's lawyer, Jacques Verges, appeared on the steps of the courthouse, an angry mob began forming, and from the crowd came shouts of "SS!" and "Assassin!" Police quickly moved to protect the lawyer, who had challenged not only France's moral right to try Barbie but also the testimony of his victims...
Meanwhile, about 2,000 people attacked the U.S. embassy, denouncing a recent U.S. Senate resolution that called on Noriega to step down. The State Department charged that Panamanian officials orchestrated the mob attack. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called on Panama's military leaders to "remove their institution from politics" and keep the politics more democratic...
Bulfinch set out to produce a building that declared "openness." The classical portico of the Massachusetts state house invites the citizen in, offering him rights of access to an assembly rather than treating him as a member of a colonized mob. It leads him to the chambers inside, where power operates by open consensus. Every line of this building is simple, masculine, direct -- the federal style in all its confidence. This exalted plainness of utterance would permeate crafts other than architecture; it was the general style of the early Republic. Cabinetmakers no less than builders now preferred explicit, abstract shapes...