Word: mobbing
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Your article "A Hungry Mob" [WORLD, May 7] states that because the Dominican Republic is a democracy and has no leftist guerrilla threat, Reagan praised its stability and offered no more than the $135.7 million U.S. aid package already approved for this year. Actually, as a result of discussions during Dominican Republic President Jorge Blanco's state visit, the U.S. Government agreed to provide additional help to the Dominican Republic over and above the $112.2 million that was planned for this year. At the time of the President's departure, these new commitments brought the total level...
Within hours, stones and bottles began to fly, and the rioting quickly escalated into burning and killing. In Bhiwandi, some 50 Muslim workers and their families sought refuge at the textile factory and home of Ibrahim Ansari, 50, a prosperous Muslim industrialist. A Hindu mob brandishing knives, fire bombs and cans of kerosene descended on the compound. From their barricaded living room, Ansari and his son managed to hold off the attackers with a revolver and a shotgun until police finally arrived. But by that time 20 people had been massacred...
First, let us take a look at Mr. Howe's description of the Encampment For Divestiture. He charges that the latter was an "all-night party." He also alleges that President Bok was "confronted by a mob" the next morning as he came to work. The Encampment was not a party. Its purpose was to publicize the issue of divestment, to protest the University's intransigence and lack of constructive proposals to put an end to a system of institutionalized racism, and to promote a meaningful exchange of views between the community and the Corporation. In characterizing...
...public forum on divestiture on the spot. We criticized President Bok and Vice-President Steiner rightly for refusing to set up such meeting, which we feel would be in the interest of the entire. Harvard community. Again, had Peter Howe bothered to come by and speak with the "mob" which at its height umbered twenty-five students, he might are reached a different conclusion. One should be wary of relying solely on the Crimson for one's facts...
Earlier in the month, Bok had to weave his way back through an all-night party, "The Encampment for Divestiture," that bivouacked in front of Massachusetts Hall last month--complete with cases of Budweiser and Hong Kong take-out. Confronted by a mob that demanded he speak up, Bok suggested that the saner locale of his office might be a better environment to discuss Harvard's $440 million of investments in companies that have some amount of operations in South Africa. Divestitures nailed him for trying to avoid the issue altogether...