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...clip showed one soldier at the head of a squad approach a group of stone throwers and fire his gun, thereby setting off further clashes. One student was killed, and four were wounded. One Israeli soldier also was injured. In Ramallah the next day, Israeli troops broke up a mob of about 50 Palestinians who were throwing stones at Israeli cars. One student was killed and another wounded...
...When [Kennedy] got out into the Yard, there was a total mob scene," says Flug. "As he passed by, I said, 'I'm from WHRB and I'm supposed to interview you.' He said...
...Gandhi Memorial Higher School in Delhi, one Sikh survivor after another described how friends and loved ones had been murdered. "My three sons were burned alive," quietly began Amrik Singh, a sad-eyed man whose gray beard had been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near by, Purani Kaur, 60, leaned against a wall in the dusty school courtyard, her eyelids almost swollen shut. "They came to my house with swords and bricks," she said...
...troupe also represents the terrifying mob. They can loll about disinterestedly, and then be seized by frenzied fits. As one patient suddenly bursts out, "Man is a mad animal." He growls and flails his arms and butts the nurses and nuns, yelping, "I'm a thousand years old and I've commited a million murders--prisons don't help, chains don't help...I'm not through yet...I've got plans...
...play, Evrard sees her production turn into a fiasco. When Marat is stabbed, the passions of the inmates erupt. They assault one another, pummel away at the nuns, rush at the bars which separate them from the audience and clamor for freedom. This is how the mob acts when it rises up in revolution. We are all maniacs. Weiss seems to say, and society is our asylum...