Word: mobbing
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...back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks on the corrugated zinc roof and hollow cinder-block walls was deafening. The police nervously grabbed their rifles and went to the windows...
...junta in Haiti learned the lesson. When last year, a lightly-armed American contingent travelled to Haiti to pave the way for Aristide's return, they were met by a junta-organized mob on the docks, openly threatening "another Somalia...
...Fund, two organizations that had always received his special scorn, and he spoke frequently and amicably with the U.S. ambassador. But when the military began to move against him, he reverted to type and gave a speech he has come to regret. He seemed to give the nod to mob justice when he called the "necklace" -- a burning tire placed around a victim's neck -- a "beautiful instrument" that "smells sweet...
...nation's vital interests wherever they are truly at stake. In Haiti the credibility gap the President seeks to close is largely the result of his own dithering. Indeed, more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta was emboldened to break its promise to depart voluntarily...
Some Mexicans hate the North American Free Trade Agreement even more than Ross Perot does. One night last January, a mob protesting competition from across the border broke into an American dairy's warehouse in Chihuahua and dumped 5,500 gallons of milk. Six months later in Ciudad Juarez, several men slipped into a storage area owned by the same Texas dairy and set fire to four big trucks...